We were lucky to get tickets to Glenstone, and spent a great day there the other day. It was hot and humid, enough to regret not wearing shorts, but not bad enough to induce fainting. I enjoyed myself among the sculpture, as I always do, and had a few successes and failures on the photographic front. The photograph above shows a black and white version of Richard Serra’s ‘Contour’ in the landscape, and this perspective was one of my favorites. I was able to come to some level of understanding of how the piece works in the landscape and got some nice images. On the other hand, I struggled with ‘Sylvester’, the other Serra sculpture at Glenstone. Walking through the maze-like structure was disorienting — and that is part of the intent. But none of my photographs really communicated much about the experience and that was certainly a bit disappointing. Luckily, we are returning in September.
