There are some nice sculptures at Chicago Botanic Gardens – I took this one last week.
Saturday Sculpture Challenge, 8/1/20
Saturday Sculpture: CBG
Sculpture Saturday – Mind Over Matter
Sculpture Saturday: Ravinia
Ravinia, our outdoor summer concert venue, has cancelled its season this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Here is a pretty scene of Ravinia from July of last year, for Mind Over Memory’s Sculpture Saturday.
Sculpture Saturday: Field Museum
Mind Over Memory has a weekly invitation for sculpture photos. Last year, when we got home from our trip to the Middle East, we visited the Egyptian exhibit at The Field Museum in Chicago. These are sculptures – or sculpted wooden mummy cases. Royalty in ancient Egypt would encase their mummified loved ones in several of these cases. The wooden ones might be painted, while others were made of bronze or glass.
Next to this polished wood mummy case are canopic jars, buried with the deceased, containing their vital organs, which are removed before mummification.
Small sculptures of gods would also be buried in the tomb to offer protection in the afterlife.
Figurine of the god Osiris
Pharaoh Hatshepsut’s architect, Senmet holding her daughter
Sculpture Saturday: Open House Chicago 2019
For Mind Over Memory’s Sculpture Saturday, here are some sculptures I captured during Open House Chicago last October.
Street art
At Zen Buddhist Temple
Sculpted steins at Dank Haus
At Elks War Memorial
At Wintrust Bank, Old Town
Sculpture Saturday: Schoenbrunn Palace
I really liked the graceful Romanesque sculptures of lovers in the gardens of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna.
I pity the poor guy on the bottom, bearing all that weight! The way the lovers are looking into each other’s eyes, I doubt they remember he’s there!
Sculpture Saturday challenge by Mind Over Memory
Sculpture Saturday
Mind Over Memory has a photo challenge called Sculpture Saturday. Here a few photos of sculptures I’ve taken over the last few months.
Rocking horse light sculpture, North School Park, Arlington Heights, IL (this park has a wonderful holiday lights display every year).
Modern art sculpture somewhere in Chicago – taken during our Open House Chicago 2019 tour
Sculpture at Buddhist Temple in Chicago – taken during Open House Chicago 2019.
Taken at the Chinese pagoda at Chinese Reconciliation Park in Tacoma, WA
Wanderlust & Wonderment 