Aspen Ideas Festival 2018

It's a little bit of a late post but yes, the logo leaves did make it back to the Aspen Ideas Festival.

So it's a bit like "Where's Waldo?" except it's with the logo leaf sculptures- we keep moving them around the Aspen Institute campus every year for the Ideas Festival.

Yes, there are two in Anderson Park on either side of the bridge catching a nice little reflection off of the pond.

 

Aspen Daily News 

Then, there are three more in the reflecting pool in front of the Doerr Hosier building on either side of the Andrew Goldsworthy stone sculpture.

 Here's Kathy Small and Amy Mountjoy in their Wellies and pool shoes helping out with the install at the Doerr-Hosier 

Think of it as the mangrove version of stained glass.

The view from inside the Doerr-Hosier

Reflections are good.

Very good.

Very, very good

 

and a little bit of extra love from Yourshot for this pic  

from NatGeo Editor Kristen McNicholas

and a link to Kristen's website ....

and those reflections were featured on this year's Aspen Ideas Festival App...

Previous posts on the stained glass logo leaves...

Aspen Ideas 2017

 The Aspen Leaf Sculptures reappear in Anderson Park for The Aspen Ideas Festival In 2015 the sculptures were sharing the gentle hills with JR's fantastic photographs... this year they're back but in a more playful mood... with large balls in bright colors rolling through the gentle hills of Anderson Park

 

Want to know more? Here's the link to the first installation.

Bark

The saying is in Aspen you either have 3 houses or 3 jobs. Well, here's a sampling of one of those jobs. I built a  papier-mâché tree for a private client about 15 years ago.

  

After the grand kids and the occasional all too curious guest the tree needed a bit of a touch up.

 

 The original intent was to make the structural beam into something more interesting than a beam. There were two ways  to go with that idea- try and “paint the beam white and you won’t see it as much"- or make it "more".  I'm a dive in and make it more kind of person....

 

It's all scraps of paper

and paint

 

more scraps of paper

 

and more paint

Give yourself a treat http://www.cedric-pollet.com/site/en/livre.php

Marble in the Rain

Allan and Julie came up to visit this weekend.  Allan helped me with work on Elixir of Love for the  San Francisco Opera. He's another USA 829 Scenic who has retired to Colorado.

Allan wanted to see Maroon Bells.

Julie wanted to see Marble.

It rained (a lot) so we went to Marble. As you might suspect from the name the town of Marble is next to a marble mine. To be specific, the Yule Marble Mine. Marble from the Yule mine can be found in buildings throughout the United States and most notably in Washington DC in the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. One of the best books to learn more is "Marble Colorado, City of Stone" now out of print.

The drive up was a bit wet and a "tour" of Marble is a pretty quick thing but we stopped in The Marble Gallery and picked up a few stone chips for Julie's collection. They steered us down the hill to the Marble Symposium. This village of marble carvers has been going on for 25 years now.

Vicki and Rex Branson were hosting. As we slid down the muddy jeep trail to the marble yard Rex met us with the question "Are you here to carve?" Well, no we were just here to watch...

As impressive as the Branson's work is for really stunning work in marble I have to defer to Elizabeth Turk* who also uses a lot of Yule Marble. *the link shows a video Greg Poschman made when she got the MacArthur Grant.

Her process is fascinating as this TEDx link shows....

It was a wet weekend for Allan and Julie. We need more rain, they can come back any time.