there be dragons
It had snowed in the local mountains late last month. By the time I got up there you could still find big patches of snow on the ground. At the crest of the Laguna Mountains you can look down down… Read More »there be dragons
sculpture
nasher sculpture center
I need to be careful about the things I write. I’d passed along a statement that someone had made calling the area around Dallas as “tornado country,” and look what happened. Yikes! But unless I’m Zeuss I’m thinking this wasn’t… Read More »nasher sculpture center
garden on the edge
Here’s the artist’s rendering for a new project that’s going up on the way to my weekday office. In this view things look pretty normal: a clapboard house, lawn, shrubberies, foundation plantings, patio furniture, shade umbrella–nostalgic Americana, tidy, idyllic. But… Read More »garden on the edge
after the party
If your definition of a good party is one that gets the police called on it, my July 4th party was a failure. But by other standards I think it went pretty well. (The new garden bench was really appreciated… Read More »after the party
a garden sun-catcher
Here’s a sculpture that sits outside the kitchen window. Made out of chunks of colored glass that have been mortared into a steel frame, it’s perky all day long. But when the light casts the perky shadows on the wall… Read More »a garden sun-catcher
molds–the good kind
In 1999 I went to an exhibition examining some artists’ response to natural processes. Out of all the pieces the work of Daniel Ladd stayed stuck in my mind all these years. On display were gourds that he had grown… Read More »molds–the good kind