• Tonight I have lecture followed by a reception at Lafayette College. More info here: https://galleries.lafayette.edu/2020/02/03/william-lamson-badwater-2018-2020/ If you are in town, stop by! . . . . . . . #williamlamson #badwater #contemporaryart #salt #glass #time #crystals #lalafayettecollege #contemporaryphotography #artdaily #nowonview #sculpture #abstractsculpture #geology #geologic #copper #copperplated
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    Tonight I have lecture followed by a reception at Lafayette College. More info here: https://galleries.lafayette.edu/2020/02/03/william-lamson-badwater-2018-2020/ If you are in town, stop by! . . . . . . . #williamlamson #badwater #contemporaryart #salt #glass #time #crystals #lalafayettecollege #contemporaryphotography #artdaily #nowonview #sculpture #abstractsculpture #geology #geologic #copper #copperplated
  • Tonight! I will be in conversation tonight with Ruyi Zhang at 7pm at New Inc_2F, 231 Bowery, NY hope to see you! #artist_panel_talk  #environmental_system #material_aesthetics and #process #ruyizhang #williamlamson
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    Tonight! I will be in conversation tonight with Ruyi Zhang at 7pm at New Inc_2F, 231 Bowery, NY hope to see you! #artist_panel_talk  #environmental_system #material_aesthetics and #process #ruyizhang #williamlamson
  • Happy to be to be included along side some great artists in this show. Stop by if you are in the Idaho! The Bottomlessness of a Pond TRANSCENDENTALISM, NATURE AND SPIRIT JANUARY 17 - MARCH 11, 2020 Sun Valley Musuem of Art https://svmoa.org/visual-arts/2020/the-bottomlessness-of-a-pond #HenryDavidThoreau #transcendentalism #svmoa #RichardBarnes #LesleyDill #SpencerFinch #WilliamLamson #JaneMarsching #ClaireSherman #solarium #contemporaryart
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    Happy to be to be included along side some great artists in this show. Stop by if you are in the Idaho! The Bottomlessness of a Pond TRANSCENDENTALISM, NATURE AND SPIRIT JANUARY 17 - MARCH 11, 2020 Sun Valley Musuem of Art https://svmoa.org/visual-arts/2020/the-bottomlessness-of-a-pond #HenryDavidThoreau #transcendentalism #svmoa #RichardBarnes #LesleyDill #SpencerFinch #WilliamLamson #JaneMarsching #ClaireSherman #solarium #contemporaryart
  • One week of growth... . . . Badwater is on view at Lafayette College through April 11 2020. . . . Badwater is a complex installation of objects, materials and processes that create an abiotic ecosystem, a network of non-living things that, while inanimate, continue to exert their material agency. . . . . . #williamlamson #badwater #contemporaryart #salt #glass #time #crystals #lalafayettecollege #contemporaryphotography #artdaily #nowonview #sculpture #abstractsculpture #geology #geologic #copper #copperplated
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    One week of growth... . . . Badwater is on view at Lafayette College through April 11 2020. . . . Badwater is a complex installation of objects, materials and processes that create an abiotic ecosystem, a network of non-living things that, while inanimate, continue to exert their material agency. . . . . . #williamlamson #badwater #contemporaryart #salt #glass #time #crystals #lalafayettecollege #contemporaryphotography #artdaily #nowonview #sculpture #abstractsculpture #geology #geologic #copper #copperplated
  • Excited for the third installation of Badwater, on view at Lafayette College through April 11 2020. . . . Badwater is a complex installation of objects, materials and processes that create an abiotic ecosystem, a network of non-living things that, while inanimate, continue to exert their material agency. . . . . . #williamlamson #badwater #contemporaryart #salt #glass #time #crystals #lalafayettecollege #contemporaryphotography #artdaily #nowonview #sculpture #abstractsculpture #geology #geologic #copper #copperplated
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    Excited for the third installation of Badwater, on view at Lafayette College through April 11 2020. . . . Badwater is a complex installation of objects, materials and processes that create an abiotic ecosystem, a network of non-living things that, while inanimate, continue to exert their material agency. . . . . . #williamlamson #badwater #contemporaryart #salt #glass #time #crystals #lalafayettecollege #contemporaryphotography #artdaily #nowonview #sculpture #abstractsculpture #geology #geologic #copper #copperplated
  • A powerful performance by Janine Antoni in the catacombs of Greenwood Cemetery as part of her project #iamfertileground. Open on weekends through Nov 17 #janineantoni #femaleartist #sculpture #performanceart #greenwoodcemetary #goldleaf
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    A powerful performance by Janine Antoni in the catacombs of Greenwood Cemetery as part of her project #iamfertileground. Open on weekends through Nov 17 #janineantoni #femaleartist #sculpture #performanceart #greenwoodcemetary #goldleaf
  • A few of the critters living in and on Sub Terra that I found yesterday during deinstallation. #ants #worms #prayingmantis . . . Sub Terra explores time as it is manifested by the invisible flow of water through earth’s circulatory system. The work involves excavating sections of earth and elevating them within a tiered scaffolding structure that collects and recycles rainwater. As water passes through the layers of soil, sediment, sand and clay, it is slowly filtered, eventually draining out over irregular shaped concrete columns, stacked vertically to form a network of exposed drains. #williamlamson #subterra #contemporaryart #time #concrete #sculpture #geology #geologic #installationart
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    A few of the critters living in and on Sub Terra that I found yesterday during deinstallation. #ants #worms #prayingmantis . . . Sub Terra explores time as it is manifested by the invisible flow of water through earth’s circulatory system. The work involves excavating sections of earth and elevating them within a tiered scaffolding structure that collects and recycles rainwater. As water passes through the layers of soil, sediment, sand and clay, it is slowly filtered, eventually draining out over irregular shaped concrete columns, stacked vertically to form a network of exposed drains. #williamlamson #subterra #contemporaryart #time #concrete #sculpture #geology #geologic #installationart
  • view of Miya Ando’s Silver River through Sub Terra. Last weekend to see Chronos Cosmos at Socrates Sculpture Park. _ . . . . Sub Terra explores time as it is manifested by the invisible flow of water through earth’s circulatory system. The work involves excavating sections of earth and elevating them within a tiered scaffolding structure that collects and recycles rainwater. As water passes through the layers of soil, sediment, sand and clay, it is slowly filtered, eventually draining out over irregular shaped concrete columns, stacked vertically to form a network of exposed drains. @studiomiyaando) #miyaando___ #williamlamson #subterra #contemporaryart #time #concrete #sculpture #geology #geologic #installationart #bloom #wildflowers
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    view of Miya Ando’s Silver River through Sub Terra. Last weekend to see Chronos Cosmos at Socrates Sculpture Park. _ . . . . Sub Terra explores time as it is manifested by the invisible flow of water through earth’s circulatory system. The work involves excavating sections of earth and elevating them within a tiered scaffolding structure that collects and recycles rainwater. As water passes through the layers of soil, sediment, sand and clay, it is slowly filtered, eventually draining out over irregular shaped concrete columns, stacked vertically to form a network of exposed drains. @studiomiyaando) #miyaando___ #williamlamson #subterra #contemporaryart #time #concrete #sculpture #geology #geologic #installationart #bloom #wildflowers
  • Last weekend to see Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space at Socrates Sculpture Park. . . . Sub Terra explores time as it is manifested by the invisible flow of water through earth’s circulatory system. The work involves excavating sections of earth and elevating them within a tiered scaffolding structure that collects and recycles rainwater. As water passes through the layers of soil, sediment, sand and clay, it is slowly filtered, eventually draining out over irregular shaped concrete columns, stacked vertically to form a network of exposed drains. #williamlamson #subterra #contemporaryart #time #concrete #sculpture #geology #geologic #installationart #bloom #wildflowers
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    Last weekend to see Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space at Socrates Sculpture Park. . . . Sub Terra explores time as it is manifested by the invisible flow of water through earth’s circulatory system. The work involves excavating sections of earth and elevating them within a tiered scaffolding structure that collects and recycles rainwater. As water passes through the layers of soil, sediment, sand and clay, it is slowly filtered, eventually draining out over irregular shaped concrete columns, stacked vertically to form a network of exposed drains. #williamlamson #subterra #contemporaryart #time #concrete #sculpture #geology #geologic #installationart #bloom #wildflowers
  • After 3 months away from NY, it was exciting to return to @socratespark and see that wildflowers had bloomed on Sub Terra. Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space is on view at Socrates Sculpture Park through September 3, 2019. . Miya Ando (@studiomiyaando) Radcliffe Bailey (#radcliffebailey) Beatriz Cortez (@beatrizcortezflores) Alicja Kwade (@alicjakwade) #eduardoNavarro Heidi Neilson (@moonarrownyc) Oscar Santillan (@studiosantillan) (MDR) Maria D. Rapicavoli (@________mdr________ . . . Sub Terra explores time as it is manifested by the invisible flow of water through earth’s circulatory system. The work involves excavating sections of earth and elevating them within a tiered scaffolding structure that collects and recycles rainwater. As water passes through the layers of soil, sediment, sand and clay, it is slowly filtered, eventually draining out over irregular shaped concrete columns, stacked vertically to form a network of exposed drains. #williamlamson #subterra #contemporaryart #time #concrete #sculpture #geology #geologic #installationart #bloom #wildflowers
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    After 3 months away from NY, it was exciting to return to @socratespark and see that wildflowers had bloomed on Sub Terra. Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space is on view at Socrates Sculpture Park through September 3, 2019. . Miya Ando (@studiomiyaando) Radcliffe Bailey (#radcliffebailey) Beatriz Cortez (@beatrizcortezflores) Alicja Kwade (@alicjakwade) #eduardoNavarro Heidi Neilson (@moonarrownyc) Oscar Santillan (@studiosantillan) (MDR) Maria D. Rapicavoli (@________mdr________ . . . Sub Terra explores time as it is manifested by the invisible flow of water through earth’s circulatory system. The work involves excavating sections of earth and elevating them within a tiered scaffolding structure that collects and recycles rainwater. As water passes through the layers of soil, sediment, sand and clay, it is slowly filtered, eventually draining out over irregular shaped concrete columns, stacked vertically to form a network of exposed drains. #williamlamson #subterra #contemporaryart #time #concrete #sculpture #geology #geologic #installationart #bloom #wildflowers
  • It is my last day here in France and its hard to say goodbye. Being here has been such an inspiring and generative experience and I am incredibly grateful for this time. A huge thank you to Corinne Bouvier and Guillaume Blanc of @ateliercalder for all their assistance and I also want to thank the @calderfoundation again for helping to make this remarkable experience possible!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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    It is my last day here in France and its hard to say goodbye. Being here has been such an inspiring and generative experience and I am incredibly grateful for this time. A huge thank you to Corinne Bouvier and Guillaume Blanc of @ateliercalder for all their assistance and I also want to thank the @calderfoundation again for helping to make this remarkable experience possible!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
  • Final works back from the plater, just in time to see them before I leave. Wedge / claw attachment / weight / pair of 10 sides Buckminster Fuller style nuts These two pieces I had seen at on my first visit to the junk yard, but at that time I kept the 14 sided work that I posted about a few weeks ago. bought and plated the 14 sided one on that visit. Two months later, I went back and remarkably, amid this massive pile of i beams, I was able to find them. #mysteryhardware #geodesic #copper #wedge
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    Final works back from the plater, just in time to see them before I leave. Wedge / claw attachment / weight / pair of 10 sides Buckminster Fuller style nuts These two pieces I had seen at on my first visit to the junk yard, but at that time I kept the 14 sided work that I posted about a few weeks ago. bought and plated the 14 sided one on that visit. Two months later, I went back and remarkably, amid this massive pile of i beams, I was able to find them. #mysteryhardware #geodesic #copper #wedge
  • A highlight from a day #chaumont #fujikonakaya #cloudinstallation
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    A highlight from a day #chaumont #fujikonakaya #cloudinstallation
  • A study for larger piece that involves irrigating salt blocks with a misting system designed to create a rainforest like atmosphere and then using the runoff as material to create saltinated works elsewhere in the gallery under different climatic conditions that continue to grow as the salt blocks dissolve. #salt #renault #engine #materialflow
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    A study for larger piece that involves irrigating salt blocks with a misting system designed to create a rainforest like atmosphere and then using the runoff as material to create saltinated works elsewhere in the gallery under different climatic conditions that continue to grow as the salt blocks dissolve. #salt #renault #engine #materialflow
  • From measured volume to indefinite expansion For years I have loved the title from Robert Barry’s 1969 Inert Gas work, “From measured volume to infinite expansion”. Perhaps more than the performative gesture itself, which involved releasing tanks of Inert gases in the California desert, the words poetically describe the eventual entropic disintegration of all things. I made this piece for the constant breeze that enters the smallest window in Calder’s studio, travels through the room before exiting the windows on the east facing shady side of the building. Stacked one on top of the other, two concrete blocks close the ends of a 25 ft aluminum tube, creating a sealed ring of air through which this breeze constantly blows. I like the idea of this measured volume of air becoming an aperture, a starting point for a long breeze continuing through this room and then back out into the landscape for as long as the work is installed. #frommeasuredvolumetoinfiniteexpansion #frommeasuredvolumetoindefiniteexpansion #williamlamson #robertbarry #air #entropy
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    From measured volume to indefinite expansion For years I have loved the title from Robert Barry’s 1969 Inert Gas work, “From measured volume to infinite expansion”. Perhaps more than the performative gesture itself, which involved releasing tanks of Inert gases in the California desert, the words poetically describe the eventual entropic disintegration of all things. I made this piece for the constant breeze that enters the smallest window in Calder’s studio, travels through the room before exiting the windows on the east facing shady side of the building. Stacked one on top of the other, two concrete blocks close the ends of a 25 ft aluminum tube, creating a sealed ring of air through which this breeze constantly blows. I like the idea of this measured volume of air becoming an aperture, a starting point for a long breeze continuing through this room and then back out into the landscape for as long as the work is installed. #frommeasuredvolumetoinfiniteexpansion #frommeasuredvolumetoindefiniteexpansion #williamlamson #robertbarry #air #entropy
  • Magic hour in the studio
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    Magic hour in the studio
  • Mystery object #lowtide
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    Mystery object #lowtide
  • “I don’t want to read. I don’t want to write. I don’t want to do anything but be here. Doing something will take me away from being here. I want to make being here enough. Maybe its already enough. I wont have to invent enough. I’ll be here and I wont do anything and this place will be here, but I wont do anything to it. I’ll just let it be here. And maybe because I’m here and because the me in whats here makes what’s here different, maybe that will be enough, maybe that will be what I’m after. But I’m not sure. I’m not sure I’ll be able to perceive the difference. How will I perceive it? I need to find a way to make myself absolutely not here but still be able to be here to know the difference. I need to experience the difference between being here and not changing here, and being here and changing here.” An excerpt from Roni Horn’s “Making being here enough” I relate to this feeling almost every day. #ronihorn #makingbeinghereenough
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    “I don’t want to read. I don’t want to write. I don’t want to do anything but be here. Doing something will take me away from being here. I want to make being here enough. Maybe its already enough. I wont have to invent enough. I’ll be here and I wont do anything and this place will be here, but I wont do anything to it. I’ll just let it be here. And maybe because I’m here and because the me in whats here makes what’s here different, maybe that will be enough, maybe that will be what I’m after. But I’m not sure. I’m not sure I’ll be able to perceive the difference. How will I perceive it? I need to find a way to make myself absolutely not here but still be able to be here to know the difference. I need to experience the difference between being here and not changing here, and being here and changing here.” An excerpt from Roni Horn’s “Making being here enough” I relate to this feeling almost every day. #ronihorn #makingbeinghereenough
  • Morning, evening and midday light on a 14 sided nut I found at the junk yard and had copper plated. #mysteryhardware #copper
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    Morning, evening and midday light on a 14 sided nut I found at the junk yard and had copper plated. #mysteryhardware #copper
  • Evening perch
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    Evening perch
  • Evening sunlight, synthetic motor oil, copper . . . . #fountain #copper #oil
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    Evening sunlight, synthetic motor oil, copper . . . . #fountain #copper #oil
  • Open studio tomorrow at 5pm Saché France 🇫🇷 🍷 #ateliercalder
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    Open studio tomorrow at 5pm Saché France 🇫🇷 🍷 #ateliercalder
  • This installation is a study for larger piece that involves irrigating salt blocks with a misting system designed to create a rainforest like atmosphere and then using the brine runoff as material to create a saltinated work elsewhere in the gallery that grows as the salt blocks slowly dissolve. At Atelier Calder, I am using this former chemical container as a display system, which itself contains an amazing oxidized topography. The reclamation place we bought it from signed it “Vendu Calder.” Come check it out! Open studio is Saturday June 22, 5-7pm #salt #installation #venducalder ____
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    This installation is a study for larger piece that involves irrigating salt blocks with a misting system designed to create a rainforest like atmosphere and then using the brine runoff as material to create a saltinated work elsewhere in the gallery that grows as the salt blocks slowly dissolve. At Atelier Calder, I am using this former chemical container as a display system, which itself contains an amazing oxidized topography. The reclamation place we bought it from signed it “Vendu Calder.” Come check it out! Open studio is Saturday June 22, 5-7pm #salt #installation #venducalder ____
  • Self oxidizing / cleaning copper fountain #wip
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    Self oxidizing / cleaning copper fountain #wip
  • Very exciting to see how much has grown in the last month! Thanks for sharing @socratespark ! Repost from @socratespark using @RepostRegramApp - Pictured: Artist William Lamson’s (@williamlamson) slow fountain sculpture ‘Sub Terra’ and artist Miya Ando’s (@studiomiyaando) fabric piece ‘銀河 Ginga (Silver River).’ . Go GREEN this #WeekendAtSocrates with the Queens Green Day Festival on Saturday, June 8th from 12-4PM! . The Festival features environmental activities and demos with Hellgate Farm (@hellgatefarm), Queens Action Council - QuAC(@queensactioncouncil), Big Reuse (@bigreuse), Queens Beekeepers Guild, Mindful Astoria, and Smiling Hogshead Ranch (@smilinghogsheadranch). . Attendees will also enjoy live music, dance, and storytelling from the Environmental Performance Agency (@environmentalperformanceagency); 2019 Socrates Artist Fellow & Member of the Matinecock clan, Tecumseh Ceaser (@nativetec); Africa Forestdance; and more! . Food and drink will be available on-site from vendors Balencero (@balanceronyc), Little Chef Little Kitchen (@littlecheflittlekitchen), and Chateau le Woof (@chateaulewoof)! . . #SocratesSculpturePark #QueensGreenDay #WilliamLamson #SubTerra #MiyaAndo #銀河 #Ginga #SilverRiver
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    Very exciting to see how much has grown in the last month! Thanks for sharing @socratespark ! Repost from @socratespark using @RepostRegramApp - Pictured: Artist William Lamson’s (@williamlamson) slow fountain sculpture ‘Sub Terra’ and artist Miya Ando’s (@studiomiyaando) fabric piece ‘銀河 Ginga (Silver River).’ . Go GREEN this #WeekendAtSocrates with the Queens Green Day Festival on Saturday, June 8th from 12-4PM! . The Festival features environmental activities and demos with Hellgate Farm (@hellgatefarm), Queens Action Council - QuAC(@queensactioncouncil), Big Reuse (@bigreuse), Queens Beekeepers Guild, Mindful Astoria, and Smiling Hogshead Ranch (@smilinghogsheadranch). . Attendees will also enjoy live music, dance, and storytelling from the Environmental Performance Agency (@environmentalperformanceagency); 2019 Socrates Artist Fellow & Member of the Matinecock clan, Tecumseh Ceaser (@nativetec); Africa Forestdance; and more! . Food and drink will be available on-site from vendors Balencero (@balanceronyc), Little Chef Little Kitchen (@littlecheflittlekitchen), and Chateau le Woof (@chateaulewoof)! . . #SocratesSculpturePark #QueensGreenDay #WilliamLamson #SubTerra #MiyaAndo #銀河 #Ginga #SilverRiver
  • I found 16 of these remarkable stones half buried under old pipes at a scrap yard in town auspiciously named Ville Perdue. They reminded me of Chinese scholar rocks, so I asked how much it would cost to buy them, and was told I could have them all for free. Before I had a chance to research what kind of rocks they are, I was flipping through the catalogue of the Prehistory show currently on view the @centrepompidou and I found this anonymous drawing detailing similar looking rocks called Silex. #silex #prehistory #villeperdue
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    I found 16 of these remarkable stones half buried under old pipes at a scrap yard in town auspiciously named Ville Perdue. They reminded me of Chinese scholar rocks, so I asked how much it would cost to buy them, and was told I could have them all for free. Before I had a chance to research what kind of rocks they are, I was flipping through the catalogue of the Prehistory show currently on view the @centrepompidou and I found this anonymous drawing detailing similar looking rocks called Silex. #silex #prehistory #villeperdue
  • Repost from @ateliercalder using @RepostRegramApp - 🇫🇷: 7h20 le 31 mai, lumière du matin sur la vallée de l’Indre – @williamlamson, artiste en résidence de l’Atelier Calder • 🇺🇸: 720 AM May 31, morning light on the Indre Valley – @williamlamson, Atelier Calder artist-in-residence • #ateliercalder #saché #williamlamson
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    Repost from @ateliercalder using @RepostRegramApp - 🇫🇷: 7h20 le 31 mai, lumière du matin sur la vallée de l’Indre – @williamlamson, artiste en résidence de l’Atelier Calder • 🇺🇸: 720 AM May 31, morning light on the Indre Valley – @williamlamson, Atelier Calder artist-in-residence • #ateliercalder #saché #williamlamson
  • Details of a partially dissolved 25KG salt block, part of an installation I am working on here at #ateliercalder. We are having an open studio on Sat June 22ed, 5-8pm in Saché France, come see it! . . . . #salt #water #time #crystals #sculpture #geology #geologic #installationart
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    Details of a partially dissolved 25KG salt block, part of an installation I am working on here at #ateliercalder. We are having an open studio on Sat June 22ed, 5-8pm in Saché France, come see it! . . . . #salt #water #time #crystals #sculpture #geology #geologic #installationart
  • A few images from our visit to Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature today. The first three are #ThéoMercier, the last three are from their permanent collection which is amazing, but difficult to find info on each object.  #theomercier#museedelachasseetlanature #art#artist #artgallery #contemporaryart#artexhibition #artmuseum #art
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    A few images from our visit to Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature today. The first three are #ThéoMercier, the last three are from their permanent collection which is amazing, but difficult to find info on each object.  #theomercier#museedelachasseetlanature #art#artist #artgallery #contemporaryart#artexhibition #artmuseum #art
  • Look who came to see me in France!
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    Look who came to see me in France!