Den Haag Sculpture

Summer 2012 - The Hague

Every Summer, the median of the Korte Voorhout in The Hague is lined with sculptures - every year a different theme. This year's was called The Rainbow Nation and all the sculptures were done by South Africans. 

The sculptures included an elephant made entirely of recycled strips of tyres (pictured), Granite slabs with tally marks for the number of days POWs were imprisoned, metal sheets with reflections of the words "LOVE" and "HATE," a kneeling man made of South African dirt, straw and rocks (pictured), and a bus made out of plastic hangers. 

Suzanne

Suzanne is one of my mother's friends. She is very eccentric, and very wonderful.

Suzanne likes to have art in her house from those around her. For instance, at the moment, she has multiple photos done by my mother, and a coloured pencil drawing of converse by me.

Soon she will also have these three photos hanging in her office:

 

The first photo was taken the day before Easter at an indoor market on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, the second was taken late at night at Rockefeller Center this past winter, and the third in Wassenaar, (Holland,) on my walk to the shopping street this spring.

Thank you Suzanne!

Kroller Muller Museum

The summer before I went to college, my mother and I went together to the Kroller Muller Museum which is located in the Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo, for anyone interested in going there.

The museum is in the middle of a park



And to get to the museum they have all these white bikes you can use.



Around the museum they have this fantastic sculpture garden:




:)




The sculptures weren't the only pretty things in the park. So I added in the natural beauty around them!



I love the colour of this rock



These stairs literally lead into the sky. Apparently people used to be able to climb them, but when we were there a sign was up saying, "The Stairs are shut after an accident and are being evaluated for structural integrity" or something along those lines. Makes me wonder...




Don't these look yummy?


The next sculpture was really cool because from the side it looked like this:


But from the bottom...


It looked like this! Woah.




I don't exactly know what it is, but it's definitely cute!