This afternoon we wandered over to the Socrates Sculpture Park to check out one of the newest installations — a “ghostly full-scale latex replica of a demolished Lower Ninth Ward shotgun-style home” by sculptor Takashi Horisaki.
I don’t know if it struck me as ghostly, but it was certainly cool to explore. See my photos:
It was spooky, I’ll admit, yet there were dozens of people, families and their dogs, barking, laughing, having a good time. An odd juxtaposition, difficult to ponder the artwork. I need to go back during the week, on a cloudy morning, when it’s just me, and my favorite park.
I also enjoyed the gardens in the park, which are in full bloom. A Mothra landed on my leg.
Down the road from our house, I spotted this growing on someone’s shed, although this was an urban shed amid concrete and razor-wire. No grass for blocks, this pumpkin patch somehow sprang up in the back of a large group of row houses.
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Takashi Horisaki // August 15, 2007 at 4:05 pm |
Thank you for visiting Socrates Sculpture Park.
I spent three months in New Orleans to go through from
finding a house, getting permission to casting house and bringing and rebuilding
the house in NYC. I am now exhausted and zonbie, but am glad that many people
visit and think about what is happening in Louisiana and Mississippi.
I hope I can find place to displace the house, which means exhibit it in
different cities.
I and Nina, my wife live in Long Island City and Astoria border. (edge of 36 ave sta. area.)
westernqueensland // August 15, 2007 at 5:09 pm |
I Really liked the instillation, and am glad I finally got off of my ass and saw visited the sculpture garden behind Costco. I think, like a phoenix, the instillation was the perfect one for my fist visit there. I, too, took some photos and I hope to get some of them up later on my blog. The effect of the flaccid latex was the perfect medium for the impotent failure of our nation to the disaster. Furthermore, there was something wonderfully gothic about both the shotgun-shack-cast (in latex) and its instillation under some trees by the East River.
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