Photo Friday

Regular readers have seen this photo before. It is one of my favorites. It was taken a the Ju Ming Museum in Taiwan. The difference here is that these were taken in B & W. These sculptures are massive and I love how B&W captures the tones and texture.



Have a great Friday and a great weekend. Ride your bike!

Ju Ming Museum Part 3

Thai Chi - My 3rd and final post on the Ju Ming Museum. These bronze sculptures are enormous. There are many others, but I was not able to get good shots of them. Some of these sculptures were 20-30 feet tall!





And here is my final and favorite image from this trip. It is one of my favorite images I have ever taken. I was lying on the ground looking up. I wanted to magnify the size of this sculpture.



Now, stay tuned as I get back to the bicycle tour. Just prior to leaving for Taiwan for work, I left off in Washington. We will be heading into Oregon. Stay tuned.

Ju Ming Museum Part 2

Today, I'm going to share a few pics of the wooden sculptures found inside at the Ju Ming Museum. When I look back at my brief time at the museum, these 3 pieces were probably my favorites. They are exceptional works.



This piece is called Ordinary Living World and is my favorite. When you stepped back from this piece, it looked like a huge painted wall mural. It was probably 40ft wide by 20ft tall. As you got closer, you could see more layers. As you got even closer, you would notice the individual carved and painted people. Simply beautiful. The sculpture was far from ordinary, but you got a sense of ordinary when you looked at the individual people.



Here is a close up showing some of the detail and layering.



This piece is carved from a giant piece of wood. The bull is pulling an overfilled cart up a hill. Two men are also pushing. Looking at this piece you could feel the strain on the bull and the individuals. Very cool piece.



This piece had the most meaning to me. It's titled Cubic Living World. I love when artists totally nail a concept with color and composition. To me, this piece represents the millions of people that go to work, sit in cubes, generally look the same as everyone else, and lack any sort of individuality. It also has meaning to me because I've been one of those people for the last 13 years. This piece was like looking in a mirror.

Stay tuned. My last piece will show his giant bronze sculptures and will include what I consider one of the best photo's I've ever taken.

Ju Ming Museum

This is a long photo post today. I hope you are not on dial up or you may be waiting a while.

As mentioned yesterday, I've got 3 photo galleries from the amazing Ju Ming museum. I'll share a few of my favorite pictures from each of those galleries. Today, I will be sharing pics from Ju Ming's Tribute to Armed Forces.

Home!

I'm back from quick and intense journey to Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. Wow! Sorry I couldn't share more while on the trip. My computer wasn't working at the hotel we were staying at in Taiwan and I had no hotel internet access while in China. I don't even know where or how to start documenting this trip. In fact, I'm going to sit on my trip a bit longer before I lay my story out here.

Until then, I'll leave you with a few fun photo's from the Ju Ming Museum. Truly an amazing artist and an incredible location and experience. I will likely have 3 different photo exhibits just from this museum.





For those of you readers that know what the Homie Fall Fest is here in Mpls, this last photo is a true inspiration.