Intense color

These are poppies on the campus  of Stanford University but they are also powerful memory triggers.  When I walked up on this field, I gasped remembering the fields and roadsides of France wheres splotches of bright red sprang up from the most surprising places…looking at them was like looking at joy.

A messsage?

On Fourth Street in San Francisco…

Compelling

The New Guinea Sculpture Garden at Stanford University, created by ten master carvers from the Middle Sepik River Region of Papua New Guinea in the summer of 1994.  “The project is not an attempt to recreate a traditional New Guinea environment but, according to Mason [the project director], ‘an opportunity to experiment with and reinterpret [...]