After all the fun Meredith and I had our bowling date, I decided to step
my woo-ment up a notch and decided to take Meredith on a roadtrip
date! So
we
rented a car (er, actually - Meredith had to rent the car because
I'd let my driver's license expire by accident. Doh!) and decided
to check out the Storm King Art Center - a sprawling park filled
with MASSIVE sculptures that's about an hour or so north of NYC.
Mer behind the wheel of our mighty rental. (Trying to hide how nervous
she was about driving for the first time in a couple of years).
The NY Throughway is gorgeous in the fall.
A little over an hour later, and we'd arrived.
We picked a perfect fall day and the colors were out in full effect.
OMG! Giant art!
The grounds are amazing. There are all these sloping, manicured hills
with giant sculptures every couple of hundred yards.
Look out! Falling art!
Hahaha. We're so lame.
Seriously, who's more retarded than us?
Good art!
Bad art!
Hahah. Using art as a prop to make new art.
Neato sculpture.
On the other side of the art center are a bunch of enormous crane-like
sculptures that are made out of steel i-beams. This one must have been
like 4 storeys tall!
More of the crane sculptures.
We laid underneath them and took a break.
And took pics.
This one is pretty famous. It's by Mark di Suvero and it's called Mother
Peace.
It was created in 1969 during the summer of love.
Here's Mer experiencing the summer lovin'.
And here's me with my hippy-hair.
Awwww.
Even further across the park, are some interactive sculptures! This piece had
a bunch of heavy rubber-mallets laying all over the place and could use them
to wack the sculpture in different places and it would resonate in all sorts
of weird ways. It was really neat.
And then a few other of the sculptures had bells that you could ring
with pull-strings.
Who knew ringing a bell could be so fun?
Or so loud.
LOUD!
Can you spot camoflaged-me? (Look carefully).
The water fountains at Storm King had the most impressive water pressure
I'd ever seen.
No matter how much you wanted a drink, you pretty much got your face
washed instead.
This is a huge sculpture made out of rock! How insane is that?
Hey, that's my ear.
It took us about three and a half hours to tour the whole grounds and
check everything out. If you're looking for a fun day trip from NYC,
I highly recommend it. After we'd finished exploring, we just sat on
the hill for a while people watching and waiting for the sun to go down.
Then we took this picture!
And
on the way home we stopped at this really cute little Italian restaurant
that was in the middle of nowhere! The end!
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