The title of this post was the exclamation of choice for Lucy as we wandered around the always interesting and beautiful Brick Bay Sculpture Trail. She clutched her trail guide like it was a very rare pirate’s treasure map, found in an attic behind a faded black and white painting. For her and Emily it wasn’t just a trail map it was a detective game! Perhaps the easiest detective game in the world because everything was in order and plain sight. But a game nonetheless. Hence the exclamation of ‘GUYS!’ every time she found the next ‘clue’.
I love and celebrate my girls ability to be entertained by art. We don’t try to explain anything or make it into something it’s not. It’s just a nice walk in amazing setting looking at cool and unexpected things that someone has wrought out of absolutely nothing into something. One minute there was no idea and no sculpture. Then the prototype of an idea formed and the act of bringing it into existence shaped that idea and guided it as the artist rendered this abstraction into this thing we laughingly refer to as ‘the real world’.
We made a coffee table at the weekend and the process is the same – The idea started the form taking shape and the emerging form directed the idea. I’m not sure I could sell it for tens of thousands, but it’s a nice table made from leftover wood. There’s a post about it on this page: https://fitzhughs.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/coffee-table/
Talking of tables the food that they serve in the glasshouse restaurant at Brick Bay (that you eat whilst sitting at a table – what do you mean tenuous link?) is simply fantastic. That’s all there is to say about that. Go there – eat it. I cannot bring you the experience through words. You have to put the Salmon pate in your mouth yourself.
As for the sculpture park here are a few photos of the day.
We went on our own Stevie. One of those days when you were both working and we went out in our borrowed car. I think you must have told us where it was situated and we both think that you guys hadn’t actually been there yet.
This blog really brought back some lovely memories for David and I. We weren’t sure at first if it was the same sculpture park that we visited as we didn’t recognise the Brick Bay name. But we looked it up and it is the one. One or two of the art works we remember but of course many have changed. We had a lovely day there and you are so right, the food was delicious. Even as veggies, we had no problem ordering lovely food. Is the installation still there that speaks to you when you walk over a boardwalk in the wooded area? It frightened the daylights out of me! Just wasn’t expecting it. 😃 Lovely pictures Stevie. always good to see you all.
We were really struggling to remember in what combinations we’d been to the park. We decided that you must have come with us when the kids were at school. Is that your memory of it as well?
There are a few sound installations, some less obvious than others. The one on the board walk says things like ‘Close your eyes’ and ‘walk towards me’ etc.