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“chocolate carnival glass”
Loux Road, Westmoreland, Kansas.
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Hurricane Melissa
Hurricane Melissa has practically decimated the south western parishes of Jamaica. Melissa is the strongest Category 5 to ever hit the region and the strongest to have ever hit Jamaica. Jamaica, over the past decade, has reversed her fortunes. The economy was improving crime was down nearly 50%, inflation was low, and unemployment was low. This is devastating; we will basically have to start all over again. All the support is appreciated, and we give thanks for the Cat Bond that will help in the recovery of our beautiful island.
To the people of Tumblr: What is your stance on the 2nd Indochina War, or as it is more commonly known, the Vietnam War?
One side was right! One side was wrong! This blog backs the Viet Cong!
'Vietnam War'? Perhaps you mean 'The War of American Aggression'?
Not a communist, but Agent Orange was a special kind of evil.
Communist? Capitalist? What does it matter when war is hell?
Don't know much about the War, but I get the feeling it was pretty important.
Don't know much about the war, but it probably isn't that big a deal.
Nobody ever asks how Laos and Cambodia feel about the whole mess!
America would have won if it weren't for corruption in South Vietnam!
DESTRUCTION! OF MEN IN THEIR PRIME! WHOSE AVERAGE AGE WAS 19!
The American soldiers did what they had to do to stop the spread of communism!
America would have won if the liberals hadn't tied Nixon and Kissinger's hands!
Third alternative! (Other answer)
Please feel free to leave additional thoughts in the replies and tags!
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about sculpture. I don’t know much about its history, famous sculptures, influences on modernism or whatever – but I love this piece. (Thoughts about sculpture below.)
It’s tucked away in a corner of the big park in my neighborhood, next to an old bridge that’s since been removed and is now a dead-end path. I found this by accident, and I’m sure others have as well. It’s called Uroboros, by Chuck Kibby (1979), and is unmistakably a product of its time. I don’t know why, but it exudes an essence of the 70s. It’s made of concrete stained brick red with brick-size holes in the front. Angularity in conjunction with the cylindrical form and wavy ends. It’s very non-pretentious I think - partly due to its location off the main path - and the incessant greenery of the Pacific Northwest has colonized its surfaces and recesses so as to emphasize the forms and contours of the sculpture.
Art critics sometimes call work like this “Plop Art” – a non-endearing term to describe large works of public art usually paid for in part by taxes. Public art is often contentious, I think in part because we are so focused on humanitarian or bureaucratic problems we see rather than making public space fun and valuable. How do you justify spending a hundred thousand dollars on viewable concrete art when there are people eating out of dumpsters? In a time and place where everything is expensive, rapid urban developments are largely congruent, extreme political tension, art is - oddly enough - more important than ever.
This work is nearing the age of being historic and is no longer cutting-edge Modernism, so its power as modern art is now softened, accessible, even welcoming. I’ve spent dedicated time and effort over the last couple years trying to understand more about “Fine Art” because the range of human expression is fascinating but often difficult to understand. It turns out that all there is to understand is that all art needs to do to be Art is elicit a feeling - good, bad, angry, lonesome, wistful - and everybody’s feelings are unique to themselves.
My own local sculpture in the park is not much to look at, or think about, and maybe went unnoticed even when new. Maybe it was tucked away because somebody thought it looked out of place. I don’t know much about its history, but I’ll probably read about it just because it could be interesting. The moss encroaches more every year, and it never gets completely cleaned off. The moss ties it to the landscape of the park, camouflages it into the riparian greenery along the creek very, very slowly eroding the cement and returning it to the Earth.
Somebody talked about this piece better than I HERE, and some more history can be found HERE.
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