Art?
On a summer visit to my home village these pillars were a bit of puzzle. We thought they were maybe the supports for a new bridge across the burn. But as this shot from September shows, trees have been planted where a bridge would touch the opposite bank. We have concluded sadly that the pillars are Art.
I may be guilty of the exile's fault of wanting everything to stay just as it was, but I feel rather sad that what was a wild, natural burnside has now been primped and planted up and studded with pointless aluminium pillars.
I'm with you on this. They look awful -- natural wood might possibly have been acceptable. I wonder how much they cost, and who piad. And the ford looks as if it needs some more work done on it too!
ReplyDeleteI so agree with you Linda!!! I'm curious to know who ever thought this constituted art???
ReplyDeleteThat is really quite odd! Definitely not great art.
ReplyDeleteThat sure is a strange kind of art!!!
ReplyDeletehello Linda~ sorry for my absence. i've been sick (anemia). just now feeling like myself.
ReplyDeletei'm sorry your visit home shared a sad note with you. i understand about wanting things to stay the same, especially in nature. the 'art' to me takes away from this beautiful stream.
on a lighter note, i love the ferris wheel picture in the post below. i'd say people will be lining the street soon for a ride.
hope all is well.
Maybe they are supposed to be for a future bridge and it was poor planning with the trees? They certainly don't seem like a piece of art everyone would walk by and enjoy....
ReplyDeleteAs a former art teacher I had to explain to students that many times art was done for money and not for merit of ascetics or of reason. Suckers who are really willing to pay to see the kings clothes that he is not wearing.
ReplyDeleteThe trees, lovely. The pillars? Ew...I wonder whose bright idea they were?
ReplyDeleteI've been reading and enjoying your blog for a while. I found it on Skywatch Friday.
ReplyDeleteWhat a shame! I don't think your guilty of wanting everything to stay as it was. Those pillars are not just pointless they're ugly and a desecration of the landscape. The steps aren't quite right either.
Curiously, what is called art nowadays
ReplyDeleteVery strange, if that's art then I don't understand it. Other than that it looks like a beautiful spot.
ReplyDeleteJust a thought, but the planting and the pillars are both anti erosion measures. The only excuse for the steps is access to maintain the pillars. A couple of Ikea bags and the pillars would soon dam the river and flood the locality...
ReplyDeletei agree , this not Art :)
ReplyDeleteWell, we have a lot of similar artistic tastes here! I have puzzled about the planting, since there were trees on the bank previously. They cut them down then planted new ones...
ReplyDeleteMal, I agree that the pillars could be an anti-erosion measure. However on the IKEA bags, I suspect this might be the only IKEA-free zone on the planet. The nearest one is Edinburgh, over 170 miles away. I will keep a look out for any IKEA bags on my next visit, but so far I've yet to see one.
It is interesting, but I have to agree with you it is a sad thing if that is art!!
ReplyDeleteHey, I thought of you a couple days ago. I was perusing the aisles at the local World Market store and came upon, of all things, Kinder Bueno candy, the very brand you posted about a while back. Of course, I had to buy one and try it out. The world gets smaller every day in some ways.