SATURDAY 26th MAY 2007
I have added some Hyperlinks to this post and the previous entry because occassionally I'm helpful like that!
A trip to the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park had been on the cards in the minds of S and TRM for some time and Saturday was picked to be the day. Once again the sun and the heat were out for our visit to the park, I'm grateful that they suggested going to the park because without a car I wouldn't have got there well maybe with some crazy tourists on a coach more of which later. Nor did my guidebook suggest it as a place to visit in the 'further afield' chapter at the end of the book.
The museum is 16 miles northwest of downtown Boston, it says so on the back of the Map and Guide to the Museum and Sculpture Park before you all wonder how the hell I worked that out.
There were many, many picture opportunities outside wandering the grounds and seeing various works but first we went inside the museum to see The 2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition. All the artists work in New England and there is no thematic direction to tie them all together and they can work in whatever media they like. For me one artist despite her overly serious committment to her work and her experience of the world that it comes from (supposedly) stood out for the imagination and committment to it and that was the work of Ria Brodell.
Feeling a little peckish we decided on lunch on the terrace or outdoor area for eating and couldn't help but listen to a V.I.P Hippie in a tie-dye shirt with greying ponytail on a mobile phone telling the other end that with his contacts that he was sure that he could arrange for the right people to get the right things. We were also treated to an eldery woman tourist asking in at a guess, Eastern European accent for:
'Seeexx, seeexxx, seeeex'
:o
Get your minds out the gutters! You can only get to the roof terrace to by elevator/lift and that happens to be on the sixth floor. So yes she was right in asking for 'Six(seeexx)'
The six floor is currently home to two works by Nina Levy which provided various photo opportunities!
A trip to the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park had been on the cards in the minds of S and TRM for some time and Saturday was picked to be the day. Once again the sun and the heat were out for our visit to the park, I'm grateful that they suggested going to the park because without a car I wouldn't have got there well maybe with some crazy tourists on a coach more of which later. Nor did my guidebook suggest it as a place to visit in the 'further afield' chapter at the end of the book.
The museum is 16 miles northwest of downtown Boston, it says so on the back of the Map and Guide to the Museum and Sculpture Park before you all wonder how the hell I worked that out.
There were many, many picture opportunities outside wandering the grounds and seeing various works but first we went inside the museum to see The 2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition. All the artists work in New England and there is no thematic direction to tie them all together and they can work in whatever media they like. For me one artist despite her overly serious committment to her work and her experience of the world that it comes from (supposedly) stood out for the imagination and committment to it and that was the work of Ria Brodell.
Feeling a little peckish we decided on lunch on the terrace or outdoor area for eating and couldn't help but listen to a V.I.P Hippie in a tie-dye shirt with greying ponytail on a mobile phone telling the other end that with his contacts that he was sure that he could arrange for the right people to get the right things. We were also treated to an eldery woman tourist asking in at a guess, Eastern European accent for:
'Seeexx, seeexxx, seeeex'
:o
Get your minds out the gutters! You can only get to the roof terrace to by elevator/lift and that happens to be on the sixth floor. So yes she was right in asking for 'Six(seeexx)'
The six floor is currently home to two works by Nina Levy which provided various photo opportunities!
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3 Comments:
This world is so big - reading about those different kinds of people you ran into made me feel very...odd. There are so many people out there. I can't explain the feeling, maybe I'm going insane.
She was MAD worried about missing her floor, wasn't she? Which was odd, because there's a little light to tell you when you've reached. Plus, it was the top floor, hence the roof! People are so odd.
I wanted to just say "NO" and push the door-close button. Would that have been rude? Or, so wrong, at least?
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