Showing posts with label sculpture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sculpture. Show all posts

Thursday, September 19, 2013

The boat sculpture

Hi,
I would like to share a beautiful moment. It was when I was in Harborfront Park at Port Jefferson here in Stony Brook. I was taking a  nice walk with a Emily  who is also my neighbour and as we moved past this sculpture, I was bewitched by its beauty.


I was trying to make sense of what I saw when she spoke," Oh, that is a sculpture of a skeleton of a boat and it is carried by four men, probably shipmen."

And as I agreed to what she observed I realized that I interpreted something else in that sculpture.
I began to say to her," Yeah, actually I think that this reminds me of the Hindu tradition when a person dies and four people carry his deceased body on their shoulders, and somehow the body is very much like the boat or the ship which had carried the soul when the person was alive, but now it is more of a skeleton of boat."

And we both smiled at that, myself at my sudden observation and she at the symbolism.





Sunday, June 16, 2013

The humor of the sculpture

My flatmate Xin and I went to the Mill Pond and the Avalon Park which is near the Stony Brook Beach as they call it. Her friend and another guyfriend were there too, total four of us for the trip on a beautiful summer afternoon.
I would like to share something very humorous which came up when we saw the sculpture in the garden.
Look at the sculpture photo ( the one I had clicked was a side shot and would not do justice to what I am about to talk so I am sharing a picture from internet)

As I was gaping in awe at the sculpture, one of our friends remarked, " Look, he lost his ass!"

I totally burst out in uncontrollable laughter at his humorous comment which was true too and rebuked, " Look, yeah, but he also lost his brains".

Clearly, as an afterthought, its not difficult to predict that the first observation was made by a guy (the guy in our group) and the second one by a girl (myself). :)

I hope you understood the deep humor :)