Linked with Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Circles or curves.
Tag: sculpture
Hug a human, embrace humanity
The artist Jean Luc Bambara from Burkina Faso has named this sculpture “la protection“. I mainly see a hug, possibly the most human of all actions.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Challenge: Human.
I feel pretty, oh so pretty
Linked to Six Word Saturday. More 6 words can be found here.
Monstrous Halloween
#6 for Tourmaline’s Halloween Challenge.
Her place is on her horse
Rider and horse stand by the roadside, very unassuming. The size is deceptive as the figure is not even a metre high (discounting the pedestal). I couldn’t find anything about the artist.
Seen in Heiligkreuz, a village, little bigger than a hamlet, in the Odenwald.
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Carvings, sculptures and statues.
A bit of (cosmic) fun
I had a lot of fun with the latest Cosmic prompt: abstract.
I’ll start off with a shot that was abstract from the start. Without any editing this is how it was recorded on my memory card in the camera:
Move on to a subject that is intentionally abstract like this sculpture of which I could not find any title or the name of the artist or anything, even after researching it on the internet:
And finally a perfectly ordinary close up of a flower rendered abstract by various filters in an editing program:
Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Abstract.
Inexplicable pair
I really love this sculpture because it displays such intimacy.
But the weird – or poignant – thing about it is that I found it in a cemetery. No explanation given. Maybe it was to celebrate an undying love, maybe the artist was buried here with one of his favourite pieces … who knows.
Linked to One Word Sunday: Pair.
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