Wednesday, January 03, 2007


I am interested to hear what people have to say about the Sounding Stones at Turner Park. From my experience not a lot of people even know what they are. Check out more Omaha Public Art.

posted by Andy at 8:15 AM

2 Comments:

Blogger Molly said...

Hmmm. I've seen them plenty of times driving by, but haven't stopped to see them close-up. I never would have guessed the inspiration behind them! (http://www.wordmadeflesh.org/countries/us_reflections1.php)
The Christain message behind them doesn't strike a chord with me personally, but I like that "the open core of each stone is to be a place for crying out." I'm not crazy about words in art usually, but the particular words she used have so many connotations that it still leaves the piece up for interpretation. I had no idea that they were made from individual hand-sewn fabric molds - that is pretty impressive. Seeing them from a distance it's easy to assume they were all manufactured without much thought. It's obvious that the work meant a lot to the artist, and I respect that a lot.

10:54 AM  
Blogger Andy said...

I agree I respect that the work meant a lot to the artist, but I don't think that the sculptures work very well in passing on that meaning. It was required that these five words be written inside the pieces and still we are not exactly sure what that is supposed to mean without the artist's explanation. There seems to be an abduction from the original intent to the product, which is 5 big concrete forms. This brings up the great issue of meaning in art. Can we try to make something more meaningful by inserting the meaning into the object somehow? The end result might be that words or a narrative is not needed.

11:21 AM  

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