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So, Sunday afternoon, after lunching, P and I went to the Enchanted Forest for Art Outside.
The Enchanted Forest is a rambling patch of land in in-town Austin, wooded and hilly with a creekbed running through it. Not sure if it's a collective or owned by one person who's given it over to this use, but it's funky, the scraggly Texas woods filled with large metal-smithed sculptural art, stringed lights, bits and bobs of art, found and recycled object altars (everything and the kitchen sink), and many much-pierced, tatted, leather-wearing, tangle-haired, I'm-anti-extablishment and making a statement about it about peeps.
A lot of the structures--a stage, wooden bridges, sculptures, installations--I think are probably permanent, but for the Art Outside show they have a lot of other artists come in and set up. So you walk through the woods, hey, art! In the woods!
Things chiefly liked:
Kinetic metal sculptures, made of shiny ladles of many sizes, irridescent glass, metal balls and fish tail shapes, very cool.
Sculptures come upon among the trees, of fantastic or science fictional things, a world tree with very Cthulu-esque workings in its hollow earth beneath, solar-powered giant, metal-smithed flower lamps, ceramic creatures straight out of twisted dark fantasy...
...a layered cellophane sculpture of a person emerging, one leg, two arms, face, from a tree trunk.
Spirit bottles in blue, green, amber and clear glass, beaded and wired and hanging from many branches with little plantlings rooting in them.
An altered barbie sculpture of Shiva (roll over the thumbnails to find her), in the midst of a little haven in the trees planted in swirling silk flower patterns.
A chandelier of Victorian-esque glass lanterns wreathed in cast, aged doll faces, hanging from a branch...
...dolls with gold tiki masks worshipping and climbing on a stuffed, human-sized headless figure in striped black, sitting in a lawn in an animated pose, with one oversized, monstrous sculpted hand...(I could have kicked myself several times over, were I more limber, for not remembering my camera)
An unlit fire fountain. (the night shows must be amazing)
Paintings of little birds and bunnies and geishas in a manic, scrawly, yet whimsical and beautifully colored, slightly perturbed idiom.
A towering beached boat.
Large, somber fantasy oil paintings, by this artist, whose website is well worth checking out.
As I said, could have kicked myself for not bringing the camera; you'll have to make do with my word pictures.
it was surreal and full of prickly imagination gone wild; P and I were very glad we went.
The Enchanted Forest is a rambling patch of land in in-town Austin, wooded and hilly with a creekbed running through it. Not sure if it's a collective or owned by one person who's given it over to this use, but it's funky, the scraggly Texas woods filled with large metal-smithed sculptural art, stringed lights, bits and bobs of art, found and recycled object altars (everything and the kitchen sink), and many much-pierced, tatted, leather-wearing, tangle-haired, I'm-anti-extablishment and making a statement about it about peeps.
A lot of the structures--a stage, wooden bridges, sculptures, installations--I think are probably permanent, but for the Art Outside show they have a lot of other artists come in and set up. So you walk through the woods, hey, art! In the woods!
Things chiefly liked:
Kinetic metal sculptures, made of shiny ladles of many sizes, irridescent glass, metal balls and fish tail shapes, very cool.
Sculptures come upon among the trees, of fantastic or science fictional things, a world tree with very Cthulu-esque workings in its hollow earth beneath, solar-powered giant, metal-smithed flower lamps, ceramic creatures straight out of twisted dark fantasy...
...a layered cellophane sculpture of a person emerging, one leg, two arms, face, from a tree trunk.
Spirit bottles in blue, green, amber and clear glass, beaded and wired and hanging from many branches with little plantlings rooting in them.
An altered barbie sculpture of Shiva (roll over the thumbnails to find her), in the midst of a little haven in the trees planted in swirling silk flower patterns.
A chandelier of Victorian-esque glass lanterns wreathed in cast, aged doll faces, hanging from a branch...
...dolls with gold tiki masks worshipping and climbing on a stuffed, human-sized headless figure in striped black, sitting in a lawn in an animated pose, with one oversized, monstrous sculpted hand...(I could have kicked myself several times over, were I more limber, for not remembering my camera)
An unlit fire fountain. (the night shows must be amazing)
Paintings of little birds and bunnies and geishas in a manic, scrawly, yet whimsical and beautifully colored, slightly perturbed idiom.
A towering beached boat.
Large, somber fantasy oil paintings, by this artist, whose website is well worth checking out.
As I said, could have kicked myself for not bringing the camera; you'll have to make do with my word pictures.
it was surreal and full of prickly imagination gone wild; P and I were very glad we went.
