Saturday, November 19, 2005

surreal sexualized earthworms




So when Conchita and I were in Recife, we took a cab ride out to this little suburb named Varzia which was not much to look at, but near the corner there was this long driveway which took us through one of the only stretches of Mata Atlantica (the original tropical forest that lined the coast of Brasil) left in the northeast, and in the center of it was this sculpture garden set up by this French-Brasilian named Francisco Brennand on his family's estate. The family made a lot of money making ceramic tiles or something, but this guy decided to devote his life to art--sculpture, specifically. The result is a gigantic collection of whacked-out pieces, surreal sexualized earthworms, deformed heads/faces, vagina-esque fruits, a temple of sacrifice, and his very own taj mahal. It totally blew my mind. Here are a few pictures.

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