Scribbles and Photos

Head & Cave (My Title, A closeup of The Real World :: Tom Otterness 1992) I just spent a bit of time polishing up  Expedition Real World  -- making some tweaks to sentences and adding a couple of new sentences here and there.  Some changes were to fix grammar, others to make smoother transitions between points, still others to make new points.  Nothing major, just another example of needing to remember to  Write, Edit, Repeat .  Oh, and maybe to proof and not rely on spell check!?!? Bottoms Up (My Title, a close up of The Real World :: Tom Otterness 1992)

The Real World :: Tom Otterness (1992) I did not set out today to find the art of Tom Otterness.  Today was about walking along the Hudson River with my friend Kate and getting to my 3-4 mile goal for the day (thanks to Kate for helping me make it).  We found his sculptures as we were heading in from the river in search of a hidden little gem of a park that sits between the buildings that make up the North End of Battery Park City.   So I almost missed them. Spanking (My Title, a close up of The Real World :: Tom Otterness 1992) The sculptures, that is.  I almost missed the bronzes that make up The Real World, a 1992 installation by Tom Otterness that occupies a corner of Nelson Rockefeller Park at Warren Street.  I think my face lit up like a little kid's when I spotted them.   I'd been wanting to see some of his work up close and personal for a quite some time and there it was!  I guess my peripheral vision is not quite as bad as I thou...