Thought for Today!

Life is trying things to see if they work.

Colonia De Sacramento, Urugray.

Nancy Rubins’s Winnie’s Pleasure (2024) has been permanently installed at a public plaza in the Concord Brentwood community in Burnaby, Canada. In the sculpture, a gravity-defying cluster of found aluminum canoes and industrially fabricated metal canoes painted yellow, blue, green, white, and orange is suspended in midair, transforming everyday objects into an engineered abstraction.

“Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.” —Kin Hubbard

Ireland.