Post 5: The Torn Notebook
A monument in Lincoln, Nebraska is the torn notebook. It is a prestigious statue in downtown Lincoln that is an amazing landmark for the citizens. At first when you look at the torn notebook it appears to be an abstract object. From afar you cannot exactly tell what it is, but as you get closer you can tell that it is a notebook ripped in half with pages falling out and flying away. When you think of a notebook you think of something small where one gathers their thoughts, there is a small shiny metal spiral on the outside that encompass crisp white sheets of lined paper. The torn notebook is a massive notebook that is all the same color and texture, white and concrete. The condition of the notebook isn’t as pristine as it used to be, now it isn’t as smooth as it once was and it has begun to deteriorate due to the elements. The spiral is bent awkwardly as if someone tried to pry the notebook in half essentially ripping the pages apart. The pages of the notebook that are torn out look like they are in motion, even on the most humid and stagnant day. The words are hard to make out but the ones that I could understand are: barbed wire, falcons atop flagpoles, goose, and wayward winds, to name a few.
This particular sculpture has another meaning to Nebraskans. At first the artists, Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, were going to put up a sculpture of a cornhusker but then decided to visit Nebraska. They found out wonderful things about Nebraska like our crazy windy days and the cranes and they put all those things into their notebook that they sculpted and scattered around downtown Lincoln. Most people think of Nebraska a rural state that doesn’t have much to offer besides corn and other crops, but there are other natural beauties that occur in Nebraska that people are not informed about. It is a state of secret beauty.
A monument in Lincoln, Nebraska is the torn notebook. It is a prestigious statue in downtown Lincoln that is an amazing landmark for the citizens. At first when you look at the torn notebook it appears to be an abstract object. From afar you cannot exactly tell what it is, but as you get closer you can tell that it is a notebook ripped in half with pages falling out and flying away. When you think of a notebook you think of something small where one gathers their thoughts, there is a small shiny metal spiral on the outside that encompass crisp white sheets of lined paper. The torn notebook is a massive notebook that is all the same color and texture, white and concrete. The condition of the notebook isn’t as pristine as it used to be, now it isn’t as smooth as it once was and it has begun to deteriorate due to the elements. The spiral is bent awkwardly as if someone tried to pry the notebook in half essentially ripping the pages apart. The pages of the notebook that are torn out look like they are in motion, even on the most humid and stagnant day. The words are hard to make out but the ones that I could understand are: barbed wire, falcons atop flagpoles, goose, and wayward winds, to name a few.
This particular sculpture has another meaning to Nebraskans. At first the artists, Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, were going to put up a sculpture of a cornhusker but then decided to visit Nebraska. They found out wonderful things about Nebraska like our crazy windy days and the cranes and they put all those things into their notebook that they sculpted and scattered around downtown Lincoln. Most people think of Nebraska a rural state that doesn’t have much to offer besides corn and other crops, but there are other natural beauties that occur in Nebraska that people are not informed about. It is a state of secret beauty.
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