A Shop Window For Big Headed Royalty
Today was supposed to bring forth sunny skies, or at least brighter ones, but they never actually materialised. We had originally intended to set off to explore the coastal town of Deal but with the sun failing to remotely make any kind of appearance (we always like to see a new destination in its best light on our first visit) we decided to make for the more familiar surroundings of Rye in East Sussex.
We arrived just after midday and headed straight for some lunch at the Standard Inn - sharing a rather random pairing of a cheeseburger and fries and sticky Korean chicken wings - turf and fowl instead of surf and turf? - and a pint of lager each sitting at a window table watching the world go by. Lovely!
We then took a walk along the town's winding and, in some places cobbled, streets where we took in a collectables shop (where my brother purchased another ceramic lizard - which is sure to feature in a future blip - to add to his reptile based family) and Rye Art Gallery.
My image is of the window of another art gallery in the town and shows one of the wonderfully surreal sculptures by the sculptor John Humphreys. He has said how he has striven with his work to fuse the mediums of film, figurative and abstract sculpture into one, to create a spacial problem instead of providing an answer with it being designed to force the onlooker to solve a problem instead of providing an answer.
His intention is to make the viewer think like an artist, tipping the brain into overdrive, to correct the information it has been given in order to think more deeply and to look at things much harder.
He has sculpted several of these big heads - including Donald Trump (which he called helmet head - named after the hair product The Donald insists on using) and our very own Queen Elizabeth II. I chose the latter as surely nobody needs an even more disconcerting image of Trump than the already off-putting stark reality!
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