Spinner, 1966, sculpture by Alexander Calder, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden near the Walker Art Center, May 2008, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
blue Midwestern spring
Calder’s spinner bobs and weaves
dancing with the wind
-posted on red Ravine, Sunday, May 11th, 2008
-related to post, haiku (one-a-day)
redravine.wordpress.com 
captured this beautifully
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Scot, thanks. Somehow I missed this comment this week. I appreciate it. It’s fun to look at this photo again. The sky was so blue that day. I like the graphic quality of Calder’s work. I saw his work hanging in a gallery window on a trip to LA in the late 70’s.
Robert Rauschenberg died this week on Monday, May 12th. I loved his work. It was an inspiration to me when I first started Visual Studies in art school. On the day I photographed this Calder in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, I had just come out of the Walker with Liz and Mike. We were studying a wall-sized Rauschenberg “Combine” and I was telling Liz what I liked about his work.
He once said, “The artist’s job is to be a witness to his time in history.”
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QuoinMonkey, I feel it is necessary to confess that, despite you and ybonsey have done me no wrong, I have shamelessly inflicted a Sun Mountain Award for outstanding blogging on your innocent and unsuspecting site. Details at Cafe Philos. I hope we can still be friends.
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Paul, thank you so much. I just checked out the Sun Mountain Award over at Cafe Philos. I feel quite humbled to receive it. (I love the Sun Mountain logo, too.) Thank you for featuring ybonesy and I on your blog. I’m posting the links here for those who would like to check them out.
Oh, BTW, yep, still friends. 8)
A Sun Mountain Award for QuoinMonkey and ybonesy over at Red Ravine (LINK)
About The Sun Mountain Awards (LINK)
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