I’m really glad there are memes for postcards and stamps every week because they really prompt me to post regularly!  So here’s my Postcard Perfect entry for this week:

Sent by my very good friend Conell of Writings on the Wall
Postmarked United Nations, New York

4 March 2009

These giant shiny, bronze spheres – yes, they’re two of them displayed in the garden outside the United Nations Headquarters in NY – and they look like cracked eggs. These spheres were presented as a gift to the United Nations by the then Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Lamberto Dini in 1996. The sculptor, Arnaldo Pomodoro, created additional spheres which were exhibited in different locations around the world – in the Vatican Museum, in Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, in Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, among others.

I think it’s beautiful – really worth a visit in New York, right, Conn? :D Conell is from the state of New Jersey which is close to the state of New York. She goes to NY regularly, commuting like it’s only Cainta to Sta Lucia. Okay, my comparison sucks but I hope you get the idea.

As art is always subjective, it is up to the observer to interpret the meaning of this work of art.  In my opinion, I just find the “crack” to be significant and the location of the spheres adding more meaning to the art. To me, it gives me the impression of a broken, fragmented world… but why place it in front of the UN HQ? Does that say something? Oh well, it’s just me thinking out loud here.