Photos from 2002 October 09
Today just about all I did that was worth taking pictures of was go to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, which has free admission! So all I have for you today are a few pictures of interesting works of art that caught my attention. I'm afraid I didn't even jot down who the artists were.	Something about the way this guy used color really grabbed me. The colors were very vibrant and stark.	This was an amazingly cool sculpture of dozens and dozens of fruit bats. I saw some fruit bats in Port Douglas. At least, I caught a glimpse of street lights reflecting off leathery wings, and on the way back, I heard the beat of wings behind me, but when I spun around, all I had time to see was a distinctive and familiar shadow zipping across the street under the light.	Three turtles.
Now, this has to be one of the most unusual sculptures I've ever seen. The dangling things are some kind of nylon, like stockings, and the dark bulbs at the bottom are pounds of spices, like turmeric, cloves, cumin, and paprika. The ones that touched the ground had a light dusting of spice around them, as if they hit hard and scattered powder (as perhaps they did). You could smell this thing from several galleries down. It smelled delicious. I'd never experienced a sculpture that utilized the sense of smell as well as sight.	This piece had two buddha statues watching TV within an old TV set case. The little screens were playing a looped display of abstract animation. Wild stuff.	They had a special exhibit about this guy from Sydney who made all sorts of sculptures from found metal (junk) objects. Although they were not kinetic pieces, somehow he managed to make them look like they should be. It was a fascinating contradictory mix of very heavy components in a very light and dynamic composition. Some pieces looked very delicate and poised, although Im sure they weighed a ton. He did some stuff with wood, and some stuff *was* extremely delicate, with glass and the like. The piece in this photo is all keys.	The big version is a wide panorama shot of a bunch of his smaller pieces.
A shot out the side window of the museum.
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