Woman Made

Full disclosure: I took this on Saturday in the sculpture garden outside the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts. It's their parking lot where the Farmers' Market takes place and we sometimes wander over there to see what's new. It is difficult to get across the feeling of many of these three-dimensional, sometimes kinetic sculptures in a static shot. I took a picture of this one from two different sides and put the second one in extras.
Here is a statement from the artist, Dee Briggs: 

My work grows out of mathematics and architecture - geometry, symmetry and rhythm - line, plane and volume - visual perception and spatial understanding. They are three dimensional patterns that are at once familiar and foreign. Heavy forms that imply weightlessness creating a tempting and engaging spatial experience. Line teasing out plane, plane carving out volume - actual, implied or perceived, explored through materials traditionally used in the built environment.


That pretty well covers all the bases. I have a lot of friends who are artists. Some of them are practically inarticulate about their process and inspiration and a few seem to be able to talk endlessly about it. I like the way this artist's mathematical and creative sides co-exist.

Dana came back today, donned John's Nomex 'rat suit' a  sort of jumpsuit purloined during his working days at Chevron, and went underneath our house. At least it is fairly clean since last year's rat invasion, but there are spaces in which there isn't even room to turn over or sit up, involving a sort of combat crawl to progress.

Just as she was emerging, David, our long lost contractor, who has been in self described 'hibernation' for a couple of years, turned up at our door as he is wont to do from time to time. He pronounced Dana's work well done and Dana said there there was very little lint in the duct she put back together. We discussed swapping sides for the washer and dryer, so that the doors open away from each other instead of coming together in the middle. The dryer vent  could go through the wall to the outside right behind the dryer, a distance of about a foot instead of thirty. This should make it work much better and make it more convenient to move clothes from the washer to the dryer.

I'm heartsick for all the people affected by the fires raging through the southern part of the state. One near where I grew up in Pasadena is threatening several Hollywood studios in Burbank, and another is raging through Pacific Palisades near where our son lives in the San Fernando Valley. Los Angeles is a desert  surrounded by mountains and canyons. Santa Ana winds have always existed,  but now, unusually early in the year,  they are hurricane force pushing flames through tinder dry vegetation and threatening thousands of homes. One of the most terrifying things about these fires is that the evacuation routes can't handle the traffic of everybody trying to get away at once. I Hope everybody can get safely out of harm's way.