Sculpture is the Art of Intelligence

Welcome everyone to Shafer Minnesota

and

Franconia Sculpture Park

and I'm including 

SIX WORD WEDNESDAY

First- before you begin your journey,

"You must forget all your theories, 

all your ideas before the subject.

What part of these is really your own

will be expressed in your expression

of the emotion awakened in you by the subject."

Henri Matisse

Sunbathing time.

This sculpture reminds me of a streetlamp on steroids.

"To look at something as though we have never seen it before

requires great courage."

Henri Matisse

This piece is titled Don't Live Life in the Doorway

by Kevin Vanek

My Six Words  (all 12) for Wednesday are as follows.

Stop, if your thoughts are too reasonable at best 

you'll miss a most mythical and magical,

 monster in dragon thought 

but quite possibly lurks here

as if flowered much darker by your thinking

 while these pieces your drinking

in may 

foster yet

 another kind of resemblance that 

sings wildly in your heart of hearts.

The tubing are remnants from the Korean War.

I call this area Mirror Row.

"The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty."

Sophia Nam

"Don't wait for inspiration.

 It comes while one is working."

Henri Matisse

Jenga anyone?

"Art making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt."

Christian Boltanski

Hmm, it does seem as though I've lost my head.

"No not really here I am," said the lost head.

"Most people are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns

in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground.

But a few others are like

stars which travel one defined path:

no wind reaches them

they have within themselves their guide and path."

Hermann Hesse

How about a visit to Arizona?

Be a cactus in a world of delicate flowers.

"A discovery is said to be an accident 
meeting a prepared mind."
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the 
branches of a tree so that it will grow better."
Henri Matisse


Giddy up partner!

"I have been and still am a seeker,
but I have ceased to question stars and books;
I have begun to listen to the teaching
my blood whispers to me."
Hermann Hesse

After viewing just a wee fraction of the sculpture art that covers 43 acres I hope that you felt your way through.

As I was ready to drive away this pine cone sculpture was in clear view, and I had to smile as I watched a teenager rubbing it for good luck. There are still believers among us.

Thanks for stopping in and taking this sculpture tour.
Take good care of you.


"Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen,
and thinking what nobody else has thought."
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi