{"id":4381,"date":"2013-06-30T07:44:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T07:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=4381"},"modified":"2013-06-30T07:44:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T07:44:01","slug":"ailsas-photo-challenge-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=4381","title":{"rendered":"Ailsa's photo challenge: Sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a couple of hours every afternoon in the sculpture garden at the National Gallery of Australia, an artistic mist drifts over a pond, hiding the water and reeds and reflections and ducks and sixty-six sculpted heads.<\/p>\n

\"Heads<\/a>
Heads from the North and duck, Sculpture Garden, National Gallery of Australia (NGA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the mist clears it’s an uncomfortable experience to circle the pond, looking at the heads facing in many directions.<\/p>\n

\"Heads<\/a>
Heads from the North, NGA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dadang Christanto, an Indonesian-born sculptor now living in Australia, created Heads from the North<\/em> in 2004 as a memorial to an Indonesian military coup in which his father died.<\/p>\n

\"Heads<\/a>
Heads from the North, info<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Beside the pond there’s a restaurant in a marquis.\u00a0 I couldn’t eat there.<\/p>\n

\"Sculpture<\/a>
Sculpture Garden restaurant, NGA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Though I frequent the sculpture garden, I have, until today, always skipped quickly past this pond and over to the sculptures I understand, those I would have in my own garden (if I could), like Rodin’s Burghers of Calais<\/em>.\u00a0 But this afternoon I twisted my own arm and stopped to look into the eyes of these drowning men.\u00a0 Now I see, in a small way, what a task it must have been for Dadang Christanto to create this work of art to honour his father.<\/p>\n

\"Four<\/a>
Four Heads from the North, NGA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ailsa came up with this great theme of Sculpture.\u00a0 Take a look at her photos here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a couple of hours every afternoon in the sculpture garden at the National Gallery of Australia, an artistic mist drifts over a pond, hiding the water and reeds and reflections and ducks and sixty-six sculpted heads. When the mist clears it’s an uncomfortable experience to circle the pond, looking at the heads facing in … <\/p>\n

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