no.19 : Sphere within sphere by Arnaldo Pomodoro at Trinity College,Dublin
unfortunately encased in builders' protective grille fencing currently.
Ray has found a twin brother of this piece in his Rome and around gallery http://www.pbase.com/image/106114250 This image brought back to me Noel Harrison's version of Windmills of your Mind:
Windmills of your mind
Words and music by Alan Bergman
Round,like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning
Running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind.
Like a tunnel that you follow
To a tunnel of its own
Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shown
Like a door that keeps revolving
In a half-forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble
Someone tosses in a stream
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind.
Keys that jingle in your pocket
Words that jangle in your head
Why did summer go so quickly?
Was it something that you said?
Lovers walk along a shore
And leave their footprints in the sand
Is the sound of distant drumming
Just the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway
And the fragment of a song
Half-remembered names and faces
But to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was over
You were suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the colour of his hair.
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind.
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25-Nov-2008 09:08
excellent, this sphere within sphere once was my Christmas card.
Guest
23-Nov-2008 14:25
What a lovely sculpture, and I'm glad its behind bars, with people having no respect for others property, this piece would be in pieces. And you really got the song for it.
lol...
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soiKqN8vEco This is from a french composer : Michel Legrand: and the French title is "Les Moulins de mon coeur", well this is what I've always had in mind... as it is considered as one of the most successful melodies composed by him...
Absolutely love this song!!! Love your shot of this great sculpture!