Finding red

Lang Ea, Pop! Boom! Bang! Sculpture in the Gardens, 2018. Image: Su Leslie

Red is a benevolent dictatorship.

— James Jannard, founder Oakley Inc.

Patti’s challenge was to ‘find something red.’ My personal challenge is not to go overboard with this. I love red; red clothes, red lipstick, red food, red cars and (I’m not sure I realised this, red art).

Long ago (and far away). Red as armor in the days of office politics and shoulder pads. Image: The Big T, 1991.

“My Luve is like a red, red rose” Robert Burns. Image: Su Leslie 2020

Dessert. Image: Su Leslie 2019

Pomegranate. Image: Su Leslie 2018

Pohutukawa flowers. Image; Su Leslie 2019

Seeing double. Image: Su Leslie 2019

Work in progress: The Big T’s cafe racer. Image: Su Leslie 2018

Chen Wenling, Harbour. Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, 2015. Image: Su Leslie

And I know I’ve posted the Anish Kapoor sculpture before, but surely this fits Patti’s brief very well. Red art on a monumental scale: it is 85 metres long, and each end is 25m x 8m.

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it’s inside out, red.

— Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor, Dismemberment, Site 1, 2009. Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park, NZ. Image: Su Leslie

Anish Kapoor, Dismemberment, Site 1, 2009. Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park, NZ. Image: Su Leslie

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