Memorial day at a museum

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We decided to go off to the De Cordova sculpture museum today: http://www.decordova.org

It was a nice sunny day, so lots of pollen.


We stopped at a gas station on the way there as my wife had not had caffine yet that morning and needed it. They had something I had never heard of before. A air pumping station that takes credit cards.


But, they did have the beef jerky my wife likes.


The nice day was not as nice when we got stuck behind a truck putting out quite a bit of black smoke.


But, eventually they turned off and the day went back to sunny not sooty.


As it is a mostly outside museum on a nice day, lots of folks were going there.


But we got in and started walking around.

It was a great day to be out walking about.


As it is a modern sculpture museum, there is always a bit of a question of what is an exhibit and what is just something there.



If you reflect on this too long you have to go in the reflection box.


There was some new pieces since we were there last.



And, some of them are big.


And, of course benches.


But, what is art?
Is this art? A statement of how people are so far from nature they need to be told where and how to dig a hole?

Or, are they going to put in a sprinkler?

This seemed to be art. It even had a sign.

But, a bunch of kids were using it as a soccer goal, so which wins?


Of course, some of these things will be art, but aren’t yet...


This was another one I’m not sure about.


The tracks are actually cast cement that are painted to look like mud.


I decided that to work it needed to be an interactive piece, so joined in.


Some are clearly art, even if I’m not totally sure what they are supposed to be saying.



But, their indoor exhibits by a guest artist made me wonder more about art.
I’m not so sure about this one.


And this, is more like storage in my closet.

Don’t know about the fruit baskets either.

Or, the pile of soda shipping cases.


My wife and I disagree on this one. I just see it as a pile of things without much creativity in it that does not tell a story.
My wife sees it as a statement about alcoholism in the artist’s life.


I laughed when some folks walking through asked the gallery guide “what does this mean”.

“I just guard the artwork and keep people from touching it” he said.

The colored water bottles in the window?

For me, art needs to tell a story. This is more decoration than art for me.

We did walk around the grounds a lot too. But, with care...


We did see a very green bug. Personally, the very green of the bug impressed as much as the art.