We've wanted to get together with Renate and Gerd, our friends and neighbors, but schedules have made it difficult lately. Sunday was good; the question was dinner or biking. The weather was so nice that biking got the nod, and we decided to go to Delmenhorst, about 15K from here, to see an exhibit at a small art gallery that was showing student work from the local art college.
We've biked to Delmenhorst a few times, but Gerd bikes a lot and knows hundreds of back roads and trails, so we enjoyed an entirely different route than our usual way.
One of the early sights was this church in a miniscule villlage where a christening was about to take place. The church was founded in about 1360 (!) and I couldn't help but think: In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue..... There's some OLD stuff here.The cemetery surrounding the church has been expanded more than once, but after 700 years even a small village has a few folks who need cemetery plots.
The exhibit was small but interesting. Here's one piece that appealed to me on several levels: it was American in bent, impressive in size, sewn by machine, and - a little off. See what's wrong with this flag? *But this was really clever. The artist has to have a brain that looks at things a bit sideways.
The bench is painted to look like wood; from any other angle, it looks like a bench painted to look like wood, but from this angle it tries to disappear into the floor. We even sat on it not knowing it was one of the exhibits !!
* There are too many stars - 65. Certainly not an oversight, but we couldn't decide what the extra 15 were intended to represtent. Any suggestions?
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