“You are fettered,” said Scrooge, trembling. “Tell me why?”
“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Sculpture
Jason Mehl
The Cedars, Dallas, Texas
“What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe.
It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Andrew Rogers
Australian
Ripening
1999
Frisco, Texas
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents… some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Call Of Cthulhu
Buckingham Road, Richardson, Texas
“Beyond the silver span of the motor bridge lay basins of cracked mud the size of ballrooms – models of a state of mind, a curvilinear labyrinth.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
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Highway 75
Allen, Texas
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
― Pablo Picasso
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Rodin
Walking Man
and fans
Houston, Texas
“I think to myself:
I don’t want to survive this one
I want to burn up in the wreckage”
― Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins
Bryan Hunt
American, Born 1947
Big Twist
1978
Bronze
Cullen Sculpture Garden, Houston Museum of Fine Art
We’re on a ride to nowhere
Come on inside
Takin’ that ride to nowhere
We’ll take that rideI’m feelin’ okay this mornin’
And you know,
We’re on the road to paradise
Here we go, here we go
—-Talking Heads
Trinity Skyline Trail (east side)
from the Continental Bridge Park
Dallas, Texas
“God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly”
― Paul Valéry
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Adam, by Emile-Antoine Bourdelle, plus admirer
Cullen Sculpture Garden
Houston, Texas
“At night I dream that you and I are two plants
that grew together, roots entwined,
and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,
since we are made of earth and rain.”
― Pablo Neruda, Regalo de un Poeta
Crepe Myrtles
Houston, Texas
In the Cullen Sculpture Garden at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts there are many beautiful sculptures. But none are more beautiful that the naturally sculpted trunks of the crepe myrtle trees.
“Are we fallen angels who didn’t want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Continental Bridge Park
Dallas, Texas
Bill Chance 