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Morning Eye Candy: Lifting

Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on December 4 2012, by Matt Newman

I feel like fall is the ideal time for sitting and observing–for taking it in without having to fill the empty space with idle chatter. Which leads me to today’s mission: find a bench somewhere in the Garden, and spend at least 20 minutes sitting quietly. As my high school guitar teacher used to call it, see if you can “lift” the individual components of nature’s soundtrack; that is, isolate a single bird’s song, or one tree’s creaking branches among the rest. Listen to the wind a while.

Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen

Morning Eye Candy: Manolo’s Maquettes

Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on December 3 2012, by Matt Newman

Manolo Valdés may have capped the undertaking of Monumental Sculpture with multi-ton creations ferried by truck, crane, and ship, but that’s not where he began. First, he needed to gel his ideas on a smaller scale. If you happen to stop by the Library Building this winter, you’ll see the artist’s initial inspiration in his maquettes, now on display in the Orchid Rotunda.

Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen