image-in-ing: 2024

Beautiful to behold!

The reddish deer found in Glendalough, County Wicklow, are exotic to my American eyes, and certainly far, far more tame than the deer found here "across the pond"! I tried to look them up online and think I may have seen "silka deer", one of several varieties of deer found on the Emerald Isle? Does anyone know for sure?

Glendalough in County Wicklow

On the road... in Ireland

Budding artist?

While we were at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, which we visited in June, I saw this young man - perhaps inspired by the art work he'd seen - drawing on his sketch pad. He was making invitations for his October birthday. So now that it's October, I thought I'd reach out into cyberspace to extend my birthday wishes!

A few final peeks at PAFA

Plink... plonk...

While walking through this exhibit, there was the sound of water droplets plunking at irregular intervals into the pots. I'm not sure if I understand the artist's message here, or if I was supposed to understand, but it was powerful in its way and brought our group to a standstill for a while.

A striking exhibit from PAFA

So much to see!

Still prowling around the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts...

Closer... closer... closer...

From the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

This piece of art work drew me in. I found it fascinating from any distance, any angle.

Some artwork from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art...

These multimedia pieces were striking - although I admit that the description was not something I could really follow. But I found myself circling the installations to view them from different angles. I am not knowledgeable about art, especially pieces like these, but they were able to "draw me in". Perhaps that is what the artist was striving for.