Franconia 2019

It's a second day of sculpture gardens here at Daughter Number Three. Today, it's Franconia Sculpture Park, which is on the north edge of our greater metro area, not far from the Wisconsin border. I usually get up there every few years, but I guess I've never posted about it before.

Franconia has 120 large sculptures, but I'm showing just five. The park is 43 acres and you could easily spend a whole day there; on this trip, we had maybe an hour, most of it spent covering the ground between sculptures.


Tamsie Ringler's 1994 Oldsmobile Achieva 5 has been on the site for 10 years.


Max Rabitat was created in 2018 by Mary Johnson.


Jeffrey Kalstrom's 2014 work, The Doghouse, is just about what its name says. You can walk in the back side of the head. A steep ladder/stairway leads to a loft up where the eyes are.


Patrick O'Brien's Constructed Memory is also from 2009. This is a close-up; as a whole, it's a large metallic plant.


Emily Stover's Freighted was created in 2015 from wood, mirrors, earth, and vegetation. This wall, embedded into a hillock, faces another undulating wall of mirrored boxes. I wish I'd had more time to spend inside it.