Connecting the arts #1: The shiny sculptures by Anish Kapoor

I am still buzzing over the discoveries that I made last night. Some of you might find me extremely silly after reading this. But I don't really care. I love the things that I found out.

During my day dreaming moment of a trip around the world, I was brainstorming about topics. It happened to me a few times now that only after visiting a city, I discover the amazing architecture that they have. So it makes sense to do create the habit of doing research in advance instead of afterwards. I started out making lists of architects that I like and what structures that they have all around the world. It won't happen to me that I visit a place and miss the Frank Gehry building that they have!

Doing that already gave me a lot of AHA moments. Many times I found that in the past I had already been taking photos of buildings from the same architects. But I never connected the dots. I saw buildings that reminded me of other things that I saw, but I never asked the question: Are they from the same architect? I just (wrongfully) assumed that they were just inspired by the other building.

After architecture, I moved to arts. And surprise surprise, the same thing happened! I was figuring out who made the Bean (Cloud Gate) in Chicago, which is one of my favourite photogenic sculptures of all time. I found the name Anish Kapoor and googled the other sculptures that he made. "What?"...

The Bean in Chicago by Anish Kapoor

First I saw a picture of the ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture, which is that Olympic Tower thing in London. I have seen that from a distance but never felt motivated to actually get closer to snap some pics.

The second picture, however, looked very familiar to me. It was Tall Tree & The Eye. Another shiny sculpture, this time located in Bilbao. I knew that I had seen it, but did I also photograph it?....I went through my photos and found out that I did!

In 2015, I paid a visit to Bilbao. The first thing that I did after arrival is walk to the Guggenheim to check it out. I had already seen so many pictures of that building, I had to see it with my own eyes. While exploring and taking pictures in the drizzling rain, I saw this fun stainless steel pile of reflecting balls. They matched the Guggenheim look very well and I didn't think that much about it, except that it looked really awesome. So I snapped a picture and continued walking...

Tall Tree & The Eye at Guggenheim Bilbao

Lesson learned? I hope so... With the cell phone coverage it is just too easy to check on the spot what you are looking at. So next time, I'll snap a picture and google if I don't know the artist. And bring a better camera ;)

Shiny to do:
Sky Mirrors in different places
Turning the world upside down
Turning the world inside out
C-Curve & S-Curve
Reach

What other stainless steel sculptures do you think I should definitely check out?