ART: Alexander Calder Exhibit, LACMA

Calder - pure kinetic joy, joy of outrageously delicate balances, of calibration - it is a kind of artistic justice.

Cantilever achieves tension and stability, the body in life flow.

Little Face

And then we play.  It's zen play - the fields of the Lord, given unto us. 

Hydrostatic pressure, always trumping gravity, raising up into air and sky.

Laöcoon

The balance, the subtle non squared angles and gentlest of curves: they are of the body, they are a call to dance, they are felt within as the standing body shifts to match each asymmetry shifting themselves in light wind.

We are sliding off the edge of the world; birds and planets watch and wait for the splash as we roll into the sea and float forever.

Gibraltar