I went down to see the new sculpture of a tree they’ve installed at Nepean Point, out behind the National Gallery.
First glimpse of the tree. It’s the stainless steel one.
There it is.
It’s hard to get an idea of the scale of it from pictures. Here’s the base of it. It’s about three feet across.
Look up. Look way up.
It’s called One Hundred Foot Line, and it’s by US sculptor Roxy Paine. Here’s Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxy_Paine
This is the National Gallery’s website:
http://www.gallery.ca/roxypaine/en/index.htm
One Hundred Foot Line is part of a series of sculptures called Dendroids. Most of them look like trees. Ours looks like a dead tree without any branches.
Do I like it? I don’t know. Not specially. It’s impressive for its sheer size, but I can’t help thinking we got the one Dendroid that no other city liked enough to buy.
Maybe it will grow on me. You should go see it and decide for yourself.
Updated Oct.25: Coyote got better pictures of it than I did. Maybe he likes it more.
Singing Moon
I stopped to get a couple of shots of Maman, the other massive outdoor sculpture at the National Gallery.
This one I definitely like. Who wouldn’t like a statue of a giant spider?
A year ago today:
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Sifton
October 23, 2009
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I, too prefer the spider. When I think of a tree, well…. never mind That there ain’t no tree… but it’s a nice sculpture if you like that sort of thing. har har
har har mimi :)
Thanks for the nod, Robin.
But why has no one considered how cool it would look if Maman was climbing that steel tree? Epic, in a King Kong on the Empire State Building kinda way! But more spidery and metallic…
Agreed! Send her up.
Done.