Tag: bronze

Divided and misaligned

Verspannte Teilung, a bronze sculpture in Michelstadt im Odenwald.  It’s open to interpretation. If you put a sphere  in a vice and misalign the pieces, you end up with a distorted globe.Verspannte Teilung

For One Word Sunday: Division.

Bronze

Martin Buber

When I think of bronze I imagine it as a polished, smooth metal but often bronze sculptures are anything but smooth.  This statue of the Austrian-Israeli religious philosopher and author Martin Mordechai Buber in Heppenheim an der Bergstraße shows the foliated texture and how this fosters colour.

Linked to A Photo a Week: texture.