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Daily writing prompt: Q: Are there any activities or hobbies you’ve outgrown or lost interest in over time?
Answer: Yes.
Winging it on scorching hot surfaces walking bare feet
activities i’ve outgrown in one minute
(the marble and travertine at noontime: A sizzling hot plate you could fry an egg on it — you have no idea!)
“Air”, Aristide Maillol, Getty Center (described as the floating female figure by the Getty Center, onsite). Title: L’ Air. Artist/Maker: Aristide Maillol (French, 1861 – 1944). Culture: French. Date:design 1938; cast 1962. Medium:Lead. Dimensions: 127 × 238.8 × 93.3 cm, 687.1995 kg (50 × 94 × 36 3/4 in., 1515 lb.). Credit Line: Gift of Fran and Ray Stark
“This monumental nude seems to float in space. Although cast in lead, the smooth, grayish-blue surface actually enhances the form’s light, buoyant appearance. Perched delicately on her right hip, the figure’s extended legs and left arm create a strong horizontal, echoed in the plinth beneath her. Resting on an imaginary center of gravity, she teeters between immobility and movement, suspension and flight. The nude’s face and figure are idealized–rather than a portrait of an individual, it is a personification of air.
“In 1938, the city of Toulouse in southern France commissioned Aristide Maillol to commemorate the pilots of the pioneering airmail service, l’Aéropostale, who had been killed in the line of duty.Air was cast from the plaster model for this monument. Its form was initially inspired by a small terra cotta sculpture Maillol had made several decades earlier depicting a reclining figure resting on wind-blown drapery. The artist often used the female form to symbolize aspects of nature like the sea, the seasons, and even a subject as elusive as air.” (from The Getty)
Original photos by Myra Lambino
