Ringling Museum
In November of 2008 Shelley’s class was ending with a field trip to the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida. Yep its the same people who bring the unicorn, dancing goats and the unemptiable clown car to a city near you. The Ringling Museum is designated the Florida State museum and have a huge collection. While the class went through and discussed the history of various pieces and analyzed its historical significance I found my mind drifting on the edge of boredom until my subconscious pointed out the prominence of penises in much of the garden statuary. I found that either the posing of the piece or its positioning relative to eye level of the view directed attention to the penis. Was this a result of curator, artist, or my state of mind. Dunno.
It was a fun museum and I’d like to go back. In the Egyptian exhibit my brain conjoined some smaller sculptures to produce HippoHawk. More on that in another post.
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- Museum entrance
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- Pope somebody or other
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- Shelley!
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- Sculpture Garden
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- And here we go....
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- My iPhone was feeling threatened with all the art and went creative
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- oops
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- A series of doorways
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- I liked it in black and white
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- me
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- Egyptian Hippo
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- Japanese artist's work - I remember this as being my favourite piece of the trip.
