Thanks Bob for viewing and commenting - you're right of course about
photography..
My posts are just about collecting.
Thanks also for the info on cultural issues in the US.
BTW, got any lobster collection or did you eat / have you eaten them all?
;-)
These Angels live in Engleberg i.e. the Angel Mountain - people have
got(ten) used to having their place associated with Angels since the
14th century I guess.
Here, one of the jewels of the village is a Catholic monastery in the
midst of the otherwise non catholic Germanic part of the country.
And it needed repairs - incredibly expensive even for the Swiss. The
Church holds one of the largest organs in Eurpoe BTW.
So they decided to offer 'sponsors' the possibility to purchase plain
angels, and decorate them to their tastes, and then put them back on
auction so that they might make profits for the restoration of the
monastery buildings.
So far as I know, most sponsors not only paid for the statues once, but
bought then them back when on auction ...
I haven't heard of any legal issue so far, and the community is closely
linked, whatever their religion, since a major flood (yes it can happen
in a moiuntain valley) nearly ruined them all three years ago.
So this is the behind the scenes about angels - more to come - hopefully
some covered in snow or ice as I plan to go again at Chrismas/Xmas.
Thanks again
Best from Metz
Philippe
Bob Whitmire wrote:
>I still think, from a photo standpoint, that the first makes the best
>picture. That said, I'm enjoying the series.
>
>This "statues of stuff" phenomenon has been going on in Maine for some
>time. Every year, the nearby town of Damariscotta has a pumpkin
>festival, in which local businesses place a HUGE pumpkin near their
>buildings for local artists to carve. These things are three or four
>feet in diameter. It's cute, but it wears thin after a while. And the
>city of Rockland, up the road a little ways, once did lobsters. For a
>while there were lobsters everywhere one turned, most of them too
>tacky to . . . well. Portland did lighthouses. I believe the
>difference was that for Rockland and Portland, the forms were
>identical, and the artist types merely applied decoration. Your angels
>look as though they are different in structure as well as decoration.
>
>Of course here in the good old U.S., no entity, public or private,
>could sponsor an angels exhibition on or near public property without
>bringing all the atheists and rabble-rousers out of the woodwork to
>talk about the demise of the republic. Not to mention members of
>religious sects who nevertheless don't hold with angels. Courts would
>become involved. Speeches would be made. Letters would be written to
>editors. News anchors would stand next to offending statuary and read
>the news. Overweight people exiting Wal-Mart would be asked for their
>opinions. The end result would be removal of the offensive statutes to
>the ovation of fives of people.
>
>In fact, I'm thinking about picketing the Pumpkin Festival next year
>to protest the demeaning of the Great Pumpkin.
>
>--Bob Whitmire
>www.bwp33.com
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>
>
>On Nov 21, 2009, at 6:33 PM, Philippe Amard wrote:
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>>Thanks you for viewing and commeting on Angel 04.
>>
>>Number 05 is now up at :
>>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Angels/
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>>Bien cordialement de Metz
>>Philippe
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