I still think, from a photo standpoint, that the first makes the best
picture. That said, I'm enjoying the series.
This "statues of stuff" phenomenon has been going on in Maine for some
time. Every year, the nearby town of Damariscotta has a pumpkin
festival, in which local businesses place a HUGE pumpkin near their
buildings for local artists to carve. These things are three or four
feet in diameter. It's cute, but it wears thin after a while. And the
city of Rockland, up the road a little ways, once did lobsters. For a
while there were lobsters everywhere one turned, most of them too
tacky to . . . well. Portland did lighthouses. I believe the
difference was that for Rockland and Portland, the forms were
identical, and the artist types merely applied decoration. Your angels
look as though they are different in structure as well as decoration.
Of course here in the good old U.S., no entity, public or private,
could sponsor an angels exhibition on or near public property without
bringing all the atheists and rabble-rousers out of the woodwork to
talk about the demise of the republic. Not to mention members of
religious sects who nevertheless don't hold with angels. Courts would
become involved. Speeches would be made. Letters would be written to
editors. News anchors would stand next to offending statuary and read
the news. Overweight people exiting Wal-Mart would be asked for their
opinions. The end result would be removal of the offensive statutes to
the ovation of fives of people.
In fact, I'm thinking about picketing the Pumpkin Festival next year
to protest the demeaning of the Great Pumpkin.
--Bob Whitmire
www.bwp33.com
On Nov 21, 2009, at 6:33 PM, Philippe Amard wrote:
> Thanks you for viewing and commeting on Angel 04.
>
> Number 05 is now up at :
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Angels/
>
> Bien cordialement de Metz
> Philippe
>
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