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Saturday, October 4, 2008

Crazy rabbit!

The Walker Art Center of contemporary art is one of the first museums I visited when I moved to the Twin Cities two years ago this month. It is a beautiful building which has the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden literally in its back yard, including this sculpture. The large sculpture, size compared to the bench behind, is called Hare on Bell on Portland Stone Piers made from bronze and limestone by Barry Flanagan in 1983.

This photo always makes me smile because of the strange contrast between a playful bunny and a bronze bell. . .what was Flanagan thinking?. . .all the more appropriate for Misty Dawn's Camera Critters this week. Visit more incredible creatures here and maybe share a milk bone in honor of CC's 1/2 year anniversary!

16 comments:

Teena in Toronto said...

Cool structure!

I played too :)

Anonymous said...

Very interesting sculpture. So pretty!

My Camera Critter is up here. Hope you can drop by. Thanks!

Queen-Size funny bone said...

that must be awfully heavy.

Jane Hards Photography said...

I'm feeling all Alice In Wonderland. hat a brilliant sculputre.

Carletta said...

I was questioning why the bell myself. It is a beautiful sculpture no matter what he was thinking!
Clever post!

Bren Haas said...

As always you have a fabulous blog entry for the day.
Thank you for sharing that playful bunny statue.

Happy Fall Dear Garden Friend.

i beati said...

just makes one smile inside doesn't he Sandy

Anonymous said...

I like it, I like it!
Happy birthday Noni!

magiceye said...

that is beautiful!!

Lilli & Nevada said...

Now that is cute

ratmammy said...

interesting sculpture! very creative post.

This Is My Blog - fishing guy said...

Noni: Very cool rabbit on the run.

Anonymous said...

I was researching the color peacock blue when I found this blog. I only saw one blog before and am impressed. I may build my own inspired by nonizamboni! It felt like a home away from home. Have you read The Gift of Asher Lev published about 20 years later?

Anonymous said...

that sculpture rocks! :D

Tracey said...

What a lovely rabbit!

Quiet Paws

Kelly said...

Awesome scultpure! Very creative!