On the homefront, we had stage one of concreting our barn floor done yesterday. A crew of 5 guys came out and leveled the dirt floor, put down rebar, etc. working their buts off in the heat for 7 hours or so. Next weekend the cement gets poured. This is a huge step in turning our barn into my future studio for teaching surface design classes.
So today to inspire you I'm showing some pictures from our last visit to San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art which just reopened this year after three year of remodeling. Here are some picture of Richard Serra's "Sequence" that we found utterly fascinating its sheer size, shape and patina.
It is rusted steel, due to it standing outside for many years in a different location exposed to rain, snow, etc. It stands 40 feet high and the walls of the museum were built around it after it was reassembled there. It's on the first floor of the museum and absolutely free for the public to see.
The negative spaces are very interesting and how they allow other sections
of the sculpture to show through.
The way the light hits the sculpture changes it's color and texture from very light to very dark with hints of a deep blue as you see in the last photo.
If you are in San Francisco be sure to check it out.
I, too, have experienced this sculpture in person. Such a visually satisfying and spatially intriguing encounter. His steel walls are fabric-like in their curves.
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