Title: River 1
Location: River Road, just west of the US Post Office
Details: Iron on a concrete base.
He Said:
You know, sometimes abstract sculpture seems as though the artist was
trying to say "Look at how avant-garde I am. I create sculptures that
you can't understand." This one does that for me; I really don't care
for it. Sure, it's big, and made out of large rusted triangles. And it
shows the artist knew how to weld, but come on. After a few minutes
reflection, all I can say about it is: it's big, and made out of rusted
triangles.
She Said:
Hmmm, large rusted triangles. All right, that's certainly one way to
look at this piece. In some ways, it reminds me of an arrow point,
piercing the base on which it's mounted. Alternately, it might be the
feathered end of an arrow shaft, the end opposite the point. Or it
might simply be the big rusted triangles to which my partner refers
rather disparagingly. However, as we've pointed out several times on
these pages, art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
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