The second day of field trip, in MN

Stayed up late for the reading yesterday night and get up early, which makes me kind of tired and stressed but also excited! Today we were going to Walker Sculpture Garden and Nicolett Mall in Minneapolis.
  The first stop was Walker Sculpture Garden, which is regarded as a educational, economic and cultural assert of the state. We talked about its history and then went for a deeper exploration。The Spoonbridge and Cherry was my central focus. It was designed by Claes Oldenburg.The inspiration was came from a funny item---a spoon on a glob of fake chocolate.In order to match the theme of the Minneapolies project, the spoon was zoomed to a humorousl large scale.The cherry on the top of the spoon was considered as a playful symbol of the Garden’s formal geometry.
  This project, The Spoonbridge and Cherry must be the most attractive landscape of the garden. Everyone who comes here would like to spent sometime with this sculpture---taking photos of it, sitting around it, or just look at it all the time while they passing the plaza.When we asked to make a sketch, most of us chose this spot!
 Time passed very quickly, we were asked to do a observation project at Nicolett Mall Avenue.We are supposed to do a plan view drawing, a section drawing ,detail sketches and some analysis of the place.The measurement is kind of time consuming but still fun. After our group work, we met at federal courthouse plaza which was designed by Martha Schwartz.We talked about our observation and the design concept of the plaza.
 It is a long day.

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