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Frog or Toad (more complete ID to follow, eventually) . Lena Meijer Children's Garden Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan October 16, 2012
Standing Woman 01 Ossip Zadkine (French, born Belarus, 1890-1967), bronze, conceived 1922; cast before 1967 . Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park Grand Rapids, Michigan October 16, 2012
Standing Woman 00 Ossip Zadkine (French, born Belarus, 1890-1967), bronze, conceived 1922; cast before 1967 . Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park Grand Rapids, Michigan October 16, 2012
Standing Woman 02 Ossip Zadkine (French, born Belarus, 1890-1967), bronze, conceived 1922; cast before 1967 . Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park Grand Rapids, Michigan October 16, 2012
Juggler 02 Marino Marini (Italian, 1901-1980), bronze, 1954; cast before 1965 . Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park Grand Rapids, Michigan October 16, 2012
Juggler 01 Marino Marini (Italian, 1901-1980), bronze, 1954; cast before 1965 . Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park Grand Rapids, Michigan October 16, 2012
Juggler 00 Marino Marini (Italian, 1901-1980), bronze, 1954; cast before 1965 . Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park Grand Rapids, Michigan October 16, 2012
Listening to History 02 Bill Woodrow (British, b. 1948), bronze, 1995; cast 2001 . Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park Grand Rapids, Michigan October 16, 2012
Listening to History 01 Bill Woodrow (British, b. 1948), bronze, 1995; cast 2001 I posted a slightly different view of this, a slightly better view I think, on my DailyPhotos gallery and asked people to give their views on what the sculpture said to them. I also said I'd post my own views in the caption of an upload to this 'Sculpture' gallery. If you're interested in the comments of others, see the alternative shot here: http://smu.gs/WIMopl As promised, my own views, written prior to reading any of the comments by other viewers. Here is my current interpretation or reaction to the sculpture. I might feel and think something quite different the next time I contemplate this work. I do think that a person's very first response to this sculpture is likely to be a smile or even a laugh at the anachronism of a book to the ear as a means of transmitting content. But in my case, and I suspect in the case of many others who see this, a more serious message starts to reveal itself upon longer viewing and contemplation. For me, the message was one of irony. The figure represents something to be avoided, resisted, rejected. The element of coercion represented by the blindfold of cords that bind the book to the listener's ear seemed to dominant my thinking. The listener is in a passive or even submissive state, and is being spoon fed or even force fed the book's (history's) content in a way that renders him blind to its deeper meanings or to what deceptions and inaccuracies it might contain. (After all, isn't slavish acceptance of the literal meaning of every written or spoken word a form of blindness? Isn't propaganda just a big smoke screen, a figurative poke in the eye?) The moral seems to be that if we want to really understand history and how it affects our present and how it might affect our future, we must be active and willing participants in the learning process, not passive sheep-like followers. We must choose the books, read them of our own volition, and then think for ourselves about what they convey (figuratively with eyes wide open and more literally with an open mind). Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park Grand Rapids, Michigan October 16, 2012
Frog or Toad (more complete ID to follow, eventually)
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Lena Meijer Children's Garden
Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
October 16, 2012
Frog or Toad (more complete ID to follow, eventually) . Lena Meijer Children's Garden Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan October 16, 2012
Frog or Toad (more complete ID to follow, eventually)
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Lena Meijer Children's Garden
Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
October 16, 2012
See photo in original gallery.
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