Comments on: Driftwood Horse Sculptures by Heather Jansch

By: Zen Moments

Zen Moments — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:04:09 +0000

Oops! - that bean should be began...

By: Zen Moments

Zen Moments — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:01:41 +0000

An inspiring article by Heather Jansch about how she bean working in driftwood:
http://www.zenmoments.org/the-beginning/

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:42:05 +0000

That horse is beautiful.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:27:37 +0000

did some quick research, and the Portland piece is Butterfield. just google around.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:15:34 +0000

i'll wager that any public piece anyone sees like this is actually a Deborah Butterfield, whom kkelly mentioned. deborah is quite famous in the fine art world, and has been for some time, so this whole post has me bewildered.

By: dark horse

dark horse — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:27:22 +0000

art schools require teachers to have masters degrees, so they tend to make and teach the kind of art that is heavy with pretentious text and self-conscious bullshit, total circle jerk. most art made these days is bloodless and leaves me cold. these horses may not be the most conceptually advanced things ever, but so what? if it makes you pause, and gives you an ahhhh, then why not?

By: nate

nate — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:32:03 +0000

@ kkelley - I just got back from Portland and thought I saw something nearly the same by the airport. Thank you for confirming that.

By: Cola

Cola — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:00:14 +0000

I'm pretty sure we have one of these in Portland.

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:53:48 +0000

There's one at the entrance to The Eden Project - it's quite amazing, but sadly unsuited to having kids climb all over it, which is, of course, exactly what they wanted to do. We didn't let them - but in a long queue a climbing frame might have been handier.

By: DaveL

DaveL — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:49:23 +0000

My sense of humor would require me to secretly put a 12 pack of trojans inside this.

By: kkelley

kkelley — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:41:16 +0000

These sculptures look like direct copies of Deborah Butterfield's wood and cast bronze horse sculptures, which she has been doing since the early 1980s. Lame.

By: ted

ted — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:19:00 +0000

How are the horses using the driftwood?

By: LisaL

LisaL — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:01:36 +0000

Very cool.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:19:04 +0000

Was some of this stuff posted on Web Urbanist too? I can never be sure since my memory just mixes everthing into one big vat.

By: lannaxe96

lannaxe96 — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:15:15 +0000

These are bit eery and odd. Where do I get one?

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:15:15 +0000

Previously, though it's been a long time: http://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/28/heather-janschs-nightmare-i/

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:15:15 +0000

Yeah, it's worth a re-post, I think.