Random cool thing. Because I can.

[truepenny]

This is the coolest fence EVER. More pictures here.

It's at the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, which I visited once when I was in high school, and I remember the fence vividly (not so much the rest of the museum, which I think is more a statement about how bowled over I was by the fence than about anything else). And hey! The artist, Albert Paley, is still alive and working. Check out the Memphis Portal Gate (2008) and then, well, I just started going through the Gates subsection of his portfolio, and my jaw is kind of hanging open.

(The Hunter Museum also has a Duane Hanson, the Fundraiser, which I bet is every bit as disconcerting as the Janitor in the Milwaukee Art Museum--speaking of random cool things.)

Comments

[cmpriest.livejournal.com]

Haha! I've been there a zillion times myself and admired it (I used to live down the street). Ah, good times ...

[michaeldthomas.livejournal.com]

rarelylynne jumped and squeaked after being startled by the Janitor when we saw it for the first time. :-)

So, are you writing a story about that fence yet? ;-)

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I might also have squeaked. I was certainly rattled as all hell.

[suzanne.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting these links. I'm not sure I /like/ the gates and fences but they are striking some sort of chord.