I got back from my little weekend escape to West Yorkshire last night. Whilst there, I visited the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, just outside Wakefield (or Shakey Wakey as it's otherwise fondly known as). This place is a huge estate where they have sheep roaming the land, to keep the grass nice and trim (saves on petrol for the lawnmowers I guess). We started off well, in one of the gallery's of a Japanese-American artist and his sculptures made out of marble and all sorts. Great first impression with some woman mouthing off at one of the members of staff...I was particularly miffed as I was in mid-conversation with the tour guide regarding where to buy trendy flower corsages!! So on that note, we kinda wondered off quietly and out into the gardens.
I used to be quite into art, and I can appreciate some of the scuptures there for their hard work and craftsmanship. But really, some of them are just a little odd. I will highlight a few of my favourites.
Firstly, the collection of semi-man/semi-rabbit. These reminded me of the strange character out of Donnie Darko. They were big metal sculptures, that appeared to be cast out of melted down anything and re-arranged in the form of this creature. On the chest of a horse, and you really had to look closely, was a Harry Potter figure, broom in hand. Other's included Pocahontas, a matchbox car and some small baby. You could also point out hand drills, chains (made for a good interpretation of a spine), cogs, cheese graters - you name it, it was probably in it!
Another one of my favourites was Bugs Bunny doing a Jackie Chan impression ontop of an anvil. What is this meant to represent? Comments welcommed as usual.
We did spot this lovely brushed steel looking article on our rounds.
The sexy bunnies were giant female rabbits...one was knelt down, baps out. And another not so far away, on all fours crawling across the grass.
My highlight of the day, was what I called "El Torro" (which I hope is the correct Spanish name for a bull). If not, it will remain as it has a distinctive ring to it and one which suits. This was a very masculine looking bronze bull with bronze 'bull-ocks' the size of melons! And a rather dis-proportionately sized schlong.
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