Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Icarus in Central Park

Sometimes we just stumble across it, art and colour and form. I spotted this in February walking through Central Park to the Guggenheim. It was the middle of winter and freezing cold but this guy was making huge bubbles, handmade rainbows, just casting them off into the park, each one different from the others, while nearby a saxophone player was adding a soundtrack. Art in the park, the spatial and temporal dimensions of human interference in the complex ecosystem of New York. I wonder what the black squirrels made of it all? I guess we could take a walk on the wild side - just for the hell of it. Herbie Flowers plays two bass parts on this, one part slides up, the other slides down in unison - he lives round the corner from me, which is just a coincidence: