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Tag: sculpture
Opel in Rüsselsheim
When we pulled up next to this Opel I thought that those wheels had been standing for a while in this particular parking spot. A long while. One of those cars that tempt even the most well behaved human being to write “wash me! or “I … Continue reading Opel in Rüsselsheim
Odds and Ends
Photos for Lens-Artists Last Chance Challenge. Not necessarily worse than other photos – they just couldn’t find their niche. Oh, look! A sculpture of my brain! Diana deserves an appearance because I have shown her ravished face and figure before – but she has had … Continue reading Odds and Ends
The Weird World of Traffic Circle Art
I’ve taken photos from various angles of this odd sculpture, even with some editing to coax out the form but this is the best I’ve managed. It stands in the middle of a roundabout near a local brewery called Welde. The brewery has very unique … Continue reading The Weird World of Traffic Circle Art
I Am a Frog
So what do I know? To me – that’s a cello. And if you had my fingers you’d pluck it, too, rather than using a bow.
There I Was, Minding My Own Business
Every now and then one comes unexpectedly across a really strange creature.
This delightful critter is the creation of Kurt Halbritter and is called a barefooter (Barfüßer) or pedarius nudus peregrinatorum. Halbritter made sketches of the barefooter in the 1970s, and in 2016 Siegfried Böttcher made it into a bronze sculpture. It now stands and waits to surprise unsuspecting strollers in the Brentano Park in Frankfurt as part of several art objects titled “Comical Art”.
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Five Wet and Wonderful Words
Nautical: A fishing boat in front of Roker Pier in Sunderland.
Splendid: In the 18th century the Mannheim Palace was larger than the palace of Versailles.
Refraction: A circumzenital arc (not a rainbow) or the sky smiling.
Selected: A sculpture in the spa gardens of Bad Dürkheim. He’s been selected and he knows it.
Familiar: How more familiar can you get than snuggling bum to bum?
Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word in July
The Lady Looks On
Monday Portrait
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The Brezeladam of K-Town
Wordless Wednesday
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