Erased

I knew as soon as I saw this sculpture in the National Sculpture Garden that I'd seen something similar before. The piece is called Typewriter Eraser and it's by artists Claes Oldenburg & Coosje Van Bruggen. Compare this to their piece Free from Cleveland, and you'll see that they do not stray too far from their artist desk for inspiration.

More "Art"

Further down The Embarcadero, towards the ballfield, I stumbled across this, umm, sculpture. I guess it's supposed to represent Cupid's bow and arrow. I don't know where Cupid is, but he seems to have dropped his weapon and fled. What does this say about San Francisco? I'm not sure. If your sense of scale is failing you in this shot, look at the guy and his bike in the foreground. That should give you an idea of how big this thing is. I always pictured Cupid as a little guy...

April 2007-Part 1

It's the first day of a new month, and that means calendar pictures!!! These are from the wall-hung calendars I do for work, where they are printed out at 11x14" and put into individual frames, then hung up on the wall in a 2 x 6 matrix. I should get a picture of them hanging some day for you. In the meantime, what you are looking at above is a shot of the lighthouse at St. Augustine, Florida. I took this picture three or four years ago, but it didn't make it into the calendar until now. I really need to get back up there sometime. The shot below is the infamous FREE stamp in Cleveland, Ohio. It was commissioned by come big company, who then decided they didn't want it. So they gave it to the city of Cleveland, who probably didn't want it either. It's in a park near downtown, where I suppose it's a harmless bit of fluff.

Monu-mental

The people of Cleveland really love their monuments. They have monuments to everyone and everything that has ever had any impact on their town. The guy in the chair above used to be the mayor, and he was know for his advocacy of free speech. Heaven knows what he would have thought about the giant FREE stamp that adorns another nearby park. And maybe giant green guys are more your speed? Check out the monument at the bottom, also dedicted to freedom and found in yet another park between the first two monuments. There is all sorts of symbolism in the statue according to the attached plaque, but all I see is a naked green guy.