He's a she, Lynn. You walked right through this sculpture garden. It's the one filled with body parts including the huge marble brain. The big plaza in front of the Forum is behind the spot where I took the photograph.
A huge marble brain? Could the calcification represent the mindset of the government described in yesterday's post? We're having the same thing here. All over the country, governments are cutting funding for education, blaming "over-paid" teachers who are variously stupid, unqualified, selfish, incompetent - blah-blah-blah. However, they do not even think to consider an overhaul of the educational system. In our state, the "state" is cutting funding to every social service in the name of "cost cutting" and will leave behind more problems in their wake when its "short man syndrome" tenure is over.
It's a government that is addressing expedience, rather than the long haul. A bad business plan, I'd say.
Meanwhile, the short man will leave with his pocket book intact, those of his cohorts much fatter, and the citizens more deeply in the clutches of the special interests.
Oh, yeah, witty photo. Are you sure there isn't a camera inside? :-)
Of course, Pea, The Puppetmaster is there every Saturday morning frightening parents and enchanting small children.
Speedway, I'm passing that way tomorrow morning; I shall check if there's a hidden camera.
As for education and arts cuts in the States: Robyn (my closest blog-neighbour "Scout" who started blogging the same time I did way back in 2006) researched some figures for one of her newspaper editorials and found (from memory - she'll probably correct me) that the cuts the Republicans want to make to arts and education would cost around the same as a single fighter plane (hundreds of which are just sitting around over there as nobody outside the US bothers with conventional warfare any more). Scrap those warplanes that aren't actually needed for the kind of wars the US starts these days and you could fund free arts, education and healthcare for all and still have the world's biggest military.
Vic, it's a weird little sculpture park, filled mostly with internal organs the size of chairs for people to sit around on and contemplate the larger works. As for the audience, I found the two mannequins in the window really creepy.
Ms.M, there is no ear on the sculpture park, which is probably just as well as the busker was not one of Norwich's licensed performers and was pretty unlistenable.
Norwich is a weird place for art, Neetzy. Exhibitions seem to pop up all over the place. Yesterday the city centre was liberally sprinkled with silver foil sculptures in odd positions. Some foil wellies up a tree, a foil headless royal family waving from the balcony of City Hall. All sorts. A couple of years back we had that rash of elephants. The marble body parts just turned up one day and stayed. There's a gloriously huge Anthony Caro girder sculpture sitting in the middle of a roundabout that's been there since the sixties, some Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore in the Castle Moat Gardens, as well as al of the eighteenth and nineteenth century sculpture that you'd expect in an old English city. Art is fun and public art is the best of all.
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Hope he got some cash. He's got a bit of equipment there hasn't he, more than the ave busker?
I don't remember seeing that sculpture. How did I miss it?!
He's a she, Lynn. You walked right through this sculpture garden. It's the one filled with body parts including the huge marble brain. The big plaza in front of the Forum is behind the spot where I took the photograph.
Ah, I'd guessed Gentleman's walk (Gentlemen's?) Have you seen the Norwich Puppet Man recently?
A huge marble brain? Could the calcification represent the mindset of the government described in yesterday's post? We're having the same thing here. All over the country, governments are cutting funding for education, blaming "over-paid" teachers who are variously stupid, unqualified, selfish, incompetent - blah-blah-blah. However, they do not even think to consider an overhaul of the educational system. In our state, the "state" is cutting funding to every social service in the name of "cost cutting" and will leave behind more problems in their wake when its "short man syndrome" tenure is over.
It's a government that is addressing expedience, rather than the long haul. A bad business plan, I'd say.
Meanwhile, the short man will leave with his pocket book intact, those of his cohorts much fatter, and the citizens more deeply in the clutches of the special interests.
Oh, yeah, witty photo. Are you sure there isn't a camera inside? :-)
Of course, Pea, The Puppetmaster is there every Saturday morning frightening parents and enchanting small children.
Speedway, I'm passing that way tomorrow morning; I shall check if there's a hidden camera.
As for education and arts cuts in the States: Robyn (my closest blog-neighbour "Scout" who started blogging the same time I did way back in 2006) researched some figures for one of her newspaper editorials and found (from memory - she'll probably correct me) that the cuts the Republicans want to make to arts and education would cost around the same as a single fighter plane (hundreds of which are just sitting around over there as nobody outside the US bothers with conventional warfare any more). Scrap those warplanes that aren't actually needed for the kind of wars the US starts these days and you could fund free arts, education and healthcare for all and still have the world's biggest military.
At least you've got a perpetual audience when you set up to play there!
The eye of the world? Maybe the busker should be performing near the ear?
Speedway is on to something with her "brain calcification" comment. "Thick-headed" also comes to mind.
Vic, it's a weird little sculpture park, filled mostly with internal organs the size of chairs for people to sit around on and contemplate the larger works.
As for the audience, I found the two mannequins in the window really creepy.
Ms.M, there is no ear on the sculpture park, which is probably just as well as the busker was not one of Norwich's licensed performers and was pretty unlistenable.
Ah, so the busker needed an ear for music? ;)
BTW, my "thick-headed" comment of yesterday is directed at our elected officials making bone-headed decisions.
Hahahaha, Ms.M. I am a sucker for puns and wordplay. Excellent!
Your "thick-headed" comment was spot on for our English politicians, too.
Love your marble eye and the wee little musician in the background!
Norwich is a weird place for art, Neetzy. Exhibitions seem to pop up all over the place. Yesterday the city centre was liberally sprinkled with silver foil sculptures in odd positions. Some foil wellies up a tree, a foil headless royal family waving from the balcony of City Hall. All sorts. A couple of years back we had that rash of elephants.
The marble body parts just turned up one day and stayed. There's a gloriously huge Anthony Caro girder sculpture sitting in the middle of a roundabout that's been there since the sixties, some Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore in the Castle Moat Gardens, as well as al of the eighteenth and nineteenth century sculpture that you'd expect in an old English city.
Art is fun and public art is the best of all.
What fun! I agree public art is the best!
Darn tootin'!
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