The streets of my neighborhood were lined with a couple hundred tents full of paintings, sculpture, jewelry and various crafts, tons of it breathtakingly craptastic. But there was some moderately cool stuff too. I tend to prefer 3-D art to the 2-D kind, and I like when the sculpture looks like something. Say ... a gigantic iron pig.
I must like animals. Even this slightly more abstract acrylic thing seemed cool. Maybe it's hard to tell in this picture, but I think it's a bunch of swan heads. Anyway, I like how it catches colors.
Then we found an sculptor who worked in bronze. A lot of her pieces seemed to have a certain theme. This is called "Now, As I Was Saying..."
And this one is entitled, "A Breakdown In Negotiations" (yes, that's the artist in the background).
There were others, including one of a woman taking a guy down by the neck with a flying headlock. A sweet little girl who was looking around asked Kiki, "Are they all of girls beating up boys?" Even at 7 years old, it only took her about 30 seconds to scope it out -- something has gone wrong in this woman's head.
I wanted to buy her a lemonade for reacting with what seemed like concern, rather than brainless you-go-girlism. But I already had a date.
