Video: The impossible is possible. The Art of Balancing Stones by Bridget Polk
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Carrying stones is not a woman's business, but a 50-year-old Bridget Polk I strongly disagree with this. For a year now, she has come to the banks of the Hudson River and, choosing suitable stones of different sizes, puts them into stunning sculptures right on the spot. And the spectators passing by do not believe their eyes, because, in their opinion, what Bridget is doing is simply impossible.
A little over a year ago, our heroine saw photographs with examples of stone balancing sculptures and got the idea to do something similar on her own. Her ardor was cooled by friends who did not really believe in her strength - and Bridget considered it a challenge. Every weekend she came to the riverbank, patiently erected stone towers, and was rewarded for such persistence: her stunning sculptures prove to everyone that the impossible is possible.
Bridget Polk, who finds her work "amusing and eye-catching," loves to erect several sculptures on the shore and then watch from the sidelines the reactions of passers-by to her work. By the way, many do not believe that the stones actually hold without glue or other bonding substance, and, in an effort to find out the truth, they often destroy sculptures with careless touches. But more often than not, people try to complement the author's works or build their own stone towers nearby. Regardless of the reaction of the audience, Bridget Polk at these moments feels happy, because she managed to bring some new emotions into the lives of these people.
Earlier we wrote about another author of similar stone sculptures - Bille Dane … Then the majority of readers agreed that his work is unique, but it turns out that balancing stones is a whole direction in modern art, the ancestor of which is considered to be Andy Goldsworthy … True, our today's heroine calls her work art extremely reluctantly, considering it a skill that anyone can acquire.
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