What to do when we must clear out of our house for a real estate open house? Since open houses seem to happen at midday on Sundays (church goers don't buy houses???), we first go to church together at The Mother Church in Boston. Then we must find something to do to pass a couple of hours. This is easy in Boston!
The Church had obliged us on a recent June Sunday, by hosting an outdoor sculpture show on the Church Plaza. Here's some of what we saw. Although the title of the show is intellectual, "Convergences: Boston Sculptors Gallery", most of the creations were whimsical or humorous. To wit:
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Andy Zimmerman's Liminal Bloom. The red rig in the background is not an antenna on the Publishing Society, but a crane working on the new tower at Berklee School of Music, up Mass Ave.
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| Joseph Wheelwright, Loving Stones. I should have included a passerby to show their scale, human height. |
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| Eric Sealine, Arabesque. These dancers almost take off on pointe over the water of the reflecting pool. |
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| Marilu Swett, Water Forms. Squid in the sky? |
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| One of Donna Dodson's Tiger Mothers watches over children playing in the ever-popular fountain. The other Tiger Mother watched from the across the spectacular play of water. |
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| Laura Evans, Bag Lunch. We were told the concept: A group of children had stopped here to each their lunch during a school field trip, but something happening over yonder caught their attention, they dropped everything and ran to see. |
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Yours Truly, with Templum, by Margaret Swan. Just around the corner behind me is the entrance to the Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity.
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This overview was selected, although it does not show any of the sculptures, because it hints at the way multi-styled buildings have crowded in around the spacious Church Plaza, looming over the Church buildings to keep a curious eye on what the Christian Scientists -- and myriad others who use the plaza and buildings --
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We enjoyed this outing, and the lunch afterwards at Mel's Commonwealth Cafe, in Wayland.
Another real estate showing must occupy another blog, another day.
