Modern Art

Today, we said good-bye to my mom, after saying good-bye to Martin and Lesa yesterday.  I'm sad to see our visitors go.  We'll miss the company of course, but mostly the extra love that only comes from being with family and friends.

My mom, Lesa, and I found these giant, astro-turf covered chairs outside the Riverside Museum. 

While visiting, Clucky made Cormac this awesome hat with local wool!

To deal with our sorrows, we took the boys to see some exhibits that are part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art.  I'm telling you there is a festival almost all the time in this city!

First stop was a sculpture installation that encouraged kids (and adults) to play with and on the sculptures, including steel drums connecting to tubes, forts with snap-on material, and structures to jump and run on.

Then, we went to the Collins Gallery which has a show on a Scottish environmental artist, George Wyllie, who created sculptures that were usually temporary, like a locomotive made of straw suspended above the River Clyde before it was ceremonially burned.

bike made out of bike tire

Titled "A Mortgaged Home Climbing Up a Wall"

Fireplace dug (dug = dog)
a pun since usually a fireplace dog holds the logs above the hearth

Finally, off to GOMA (Gallery of Modern Art) to see an installation made of sawdust and plastic bags. Although Martin said this exhibit made him mad because he thinks the artist is just messing with people, I found it somewhat charming.  Yes, it's made of trash, but there were some quirky elements like the shapes made from make-up that I liked.

More exhibits to come, including an inflatable version of Stonehenge which is also a bounce house.