I think my theme this week is public art in unexpected places. So on that note, I would like to encourage everyone to take a walk into Madison Square Park  so that they can observe the strange but beautiful sculptures that are on display there. There is something about these "Markers" by Mel Kendrick that makes your breath catch in your throat when you look at them. Maybe it is the sheer size, or perhaps it is the juxtaposition of the black and white colors, or maybe it is the strange geometric contours that are so sharp and edgy that you are shocked. Even more emotionally captivating is the moment when you realize that the top half is the cutout of the bottom half. The sculptures represent duality. The top is the negative to the bottom's positive, the inside contrasted with the outside. Black against the white, part against the whole, the yin with yang, the punctum opposed with the studium. The sculptures are interactive: you can go up to them, touch them and climb in them. They belong to everyone and yet to no one. I think that the most amazing attribute of these pieces is the paradoxes that they present. Is this real, or is the art a metaphor for something else. I walked away with the notion that the Markers represented something much more philosophical than concrete as well as a splitting headache from trying to extract their meanings.=)