Saturday, December 22, 2012

Saturday Statuary - Gnarl

This is not a statue, but simply an old dead tree by the lake in St.James's Park. I think it's beautifully sculptural, however, so it's getting posted on a Sat Stat day.
What do you think?

14 comments:

Katherine said...

It looks like a question mark. Or a weird dead moose.

dive said...

Ooooh, I'm going to enjoy psychoanalysing my friends by their responses to the photo. Hee hee.

Speedway said...

It looks like Isadora Duncan trying to escape the tree in order to dance naked by the lake.

Analyze that! :-D

dive said...

Actually, I think it does, too, Speedway. There's definitely an element of interpretative dance in there somewhere.
As for the hole and any erotic element, I'm not going anywhere near that!

Speedway said...

Atually, I did see what I thought were a pair of knees, carelessly spread apart, but I'm not going anywhere near that - or the hole.

dive said...

This is why I love the comments box.

Katherine said...

Metaphorically speaking, we all have holes in our questions...and elsewhere. If there's something missing in the question, there's probably going to be something missing in the answer.

Also, the question mark looks pregnant. Hole? Question about paternity?

This is better than inkblots, Dive!

savannah said...

That's a tree trunk? I see a partial human form holding another partial human form above its shoulders... or something like that emerging from the water. xoxoxox

(I've hit a few watering holes of my own today, sugar.)

Petrea Burchard said...

Ballet! Armless ballerina held aloft by armless male ballerino, or whatever you call them.

Vanda said...

I like it. It's very post-post-modern.

dive said...

Eat your heart out, Doktor Rorschach; reading dead trees has far more erotic possibilites than any ink blots.

Savannah, it reminded me of one of Bacon's "Three Figures for the Base of a Crucifixion", a kind of bend-in-the-middle monster, but now I can see two figures in there, too.
Enjoy your watering! xoxoxox

Petrea, word of the day is now officially "ballerino". I love the way language evolves.

Vanda, you're right: as a kind of post, it naturally adds another "post" to post-modern.

Ms M said...

that's a truly wonderful gnarl. Looks like something out of Tolkien.

Ms M said...

I've added ballerino to my dictionary :-)

dive said...

Very Tolkien, Ms.M … perhaps a troll ballerino.