Here’s a fun artwork from the Stuart Collection at UCSD, Tim Hawkinson’s Bear. At almost 24 feet tall and 180 tons it’s a little bigger and heavier than your average Steiff bear, but it’s gotta be at least as cute.… Read More »unbearably cute
Last year I showed you some of the construction leading up to the installation of Fallen Star, this art installation by Korean artist Do Ho Suh. Basically it’s a tiny Providence, Rhode Island-style house and garden that has improbably landed… Read More »visiting the fallen star
I’ve been posting on the progress on the Fallen Star piece that Do ho Suh has designed for the Stuart Collection at UC San Diego. November 15 was the big day for it to get hoisted from the ground, where… Read More »the big install
Here a few random construction photos that show the development of part of Do Ho Suh’s Fallen Star installation that I posted on a few weeks ago [ here ]. I’m sure there are practical reasons for building the little… Read More »there was a crooked house
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
There’s this dead tree outside my weekday office. A crew has been working on it for the last two weeks. It’s one of three very dead trees that make up an 1986 installation by Terry Allen. Set in an area… Read More »keeping your dead tree healthy
Visitors to this part of the UCSD campus won’t forget that California is Earthquake country. Set at the edge of a walkway next to the landscaping are these pillars that have undergone simulated tremors on a jumbo shake table that… Read More »all shook up
So there I was, taking my early morning route to my office, admiring the red, bronze, green and yellow leaves of liquidambars in December… …when I came upon an unusual sight. Instead of the dangling seedpods that you see on… Read More »not your parents’ ornaments
I was heading back to my desk at work on Thursday and noticed a cluster of my coworkers looking out a window. There’s a little access road right outside. Usually it doesn’t have a full-grown eucalyptus tree fallen across it,… Read More »treefall
If a tree talks in the woods and no one’s around to hear it, does it make a sound? Tuesday morning I had my choice of places to view the televised inauguration of Barack Obama or ways to hear the… Read More »talking trees