Homage To My Father
Charles Ginnever, 1986
Central at Mayfield
I was not very excited about this sculpture when we first came upon it.
- yosh (flipping through the book):
- what is the name of this one?
- carol:
- 'Homage to My Father'. Looks like blah corporate art to me
- yosh:
- yeah
- carol:
- Maybe he is saying "I make corporate art because that is how dad set my life up; thanks."
When I got home and looked at the photos, I knew I had been wrong. Now I think that dad was a photographer.
This sculpture was built to be photographed. The whole object fills the frame perfectly (the width and height ratio need to be similar to a photograph). It is easy to get in among the legs of the statue and clear that it is okay to do this.
