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Was at the MFA Boston today and this WWII memorial sculpture struck me. It’s the wings pointing straight up to the sky, the angel’s hands grasping the body…
Mar 20, 2025
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my current favorite sculpture.
i like that I have to go see it in person and a photo never captures what draws me to it. this is the Harvard art museum’s version which has free admission so I can pop in for a few minutes and see them any time.
on the sculpture Rainer Maria Rilke wrote: “a mysterious greatness emanates from this group. . . . One doesn’t dare assign a meaning to it. . . . A heaven is near, but is not yet attained; a hell is near, and not yet forgotten.”
Feb 4, 2024
sculpture du jour... i saw this last april during her retrospective and think about it often
Feb 12, 2024
This sculpture is in SLAM’s permanent collection and they recently put it on display after a long time in storage
She’s my favorite artist, and you can look at this piece for an hour and it keeps feeling fresh, like you never get to the bottom of understanding it.
I like her work (and this piece in particular) because it’s emotionally rich. To me it embodies paradoxes like being both playful and somber, lively and elegiac, busy but unified, individual but collective, primal but contemporary, geometric and organic, abstract yet figurative, dissonant and harmonious, pattern and noise, cheeky and serious, quiet and commanding.
Go spend some time with her.
Dec 17, 2024
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My literary magazine, Sturgeon Moon Review, is looking for poetry and prose submissions for its spring issue! Please consider submitting your work at https://sturgeonmoonreview.com :)
Mar 7, 2025
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Would highly recommend Tai Chi to anyone who hasn’t tried it. Each movement feels like poetry.
Mar 7, 2025