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.
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
