Why Does Sculpture Keep Getting Bigger?
On occasion, I think about a place in time which I call, OneDay. It's a destination where I have limitless time to read and fill my cup with art. Don’t get me wrong, I love the busy days that I live right now: preserving sculpture and interesting features on buildings and writing novels set in the art world. But one day, I will have more time to take trips to far off places that are home to monumental sculptures that I long to see. Contemplating OneDay made me pause and consi
A Blend of Futility, Poetry and Bronze: Whelan makes Owens - Unforgettable
When I first saw Jim Whelan's magnificent bronze monument, Futility, words from, Margaret Macmillan's recent Reith Lecture, echoed in my mind. She spoke on the subject of the paradox that things of great beauty come out of an attempt to deal with war. She said, "It’s curious, I think, that not all wars seem to produce the same level of artistic engagement. The First World War, it seems to me, produced much greater literature, much greater poetry, much greater questioning of t
