Eric Hilton, and...paniiiccccc!

[ldhenson]

I've long thought that I don't covet art. That is, I love seeing it, but don't feel the need to own it. I'm happy knowing that, say, da Vinci's, or Dali's, or Escher's works simply exist somewhere in the world. I don't actually need to have them in my possession.

Until today. I came across a photo of Eric Hilton's insanely beautiful 1975 glass sculpture Innerland in a library book this afternoon and I'm in love. I could sit and stare at this thing for hours, and if I had the spare cash (in 1980 it was priced at a quarter-mil, no telling what it's worth now), I'd do just that.

I'm bummed that there are no photos of it online (nor can I find any info about its dimensions). This photo of Hilton's new sculpture Infinite Journey gives a bit of an idea, but imagine it with four times as many cubes, each intriciately sandblasted and/or engraved and/or filled with carefully-controlled bubbles, laid out in one big square, and you'll have some idea.

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Con panic!

Half a day until I leave for Michigan. My new cloak has no clasp, my tins aren't finished, we're revisiting last year's door decoration...Aaaghh! At least I'm halfway packed.

Comments

art and michigan

[tallihensia.livejournal.com]

Some art just *begs* to be owned. ;D

Hope you had a good time in Michigan and a safe trip!

Re: art and michigan

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was a great trip, even if a good couple hours of the driving was spent encountering highway contruction every twenty minutes. Oh, the things we do for fandom...