Saturday and Sunday, October 7&8, 2017

We arrived at our next camp site in Alpine, TX, another nice camp ground.

For several years Michelle and Rich have been telling us about Marfa, Texas.  It is a quirky little artist colony in the middle-of-nowhere, Texas. We finally made it and I have to say that quirky doesn't begin to describe it.  First we toured the Chinati Foundation. It is a museum consisting of 15 buildings and covering about 340 acres.  The founder of this and the Judd Foundation was Donald Judd, a minimalist artist.  Most of his works (and some others whose work is displayed here) needed lots of space for their art.  So Judd bought an old army base for this purpose. Judd also bought several buildings in town for more spaces. Some of Judds sculptures are displayed in the field and consist of 15 concrete boxes. When I asked the docent what they represented she told me they are not representational art.  They are spatial art. It is all about the space and the individual and the collective. Hmmmm,Okaaaay. Then we saw two huge building of aluminum boxes by another artist.   Two other large buildings had smashed car part sculptures. Another building housed the featured work of a new artist: all the walls were painted in stripes. That's it, just stripes on the walls. I can't begin to describe all of it. We toured several other galleries in town that had smaller works of art, but all of it was unusual. After the ragged toenail collection, I quit. Oh we did see El Cosmico, the wacky, but cute, campground with yurts, tepees and funky painted, refurbished airstreams. Wow, Marfa was definitely something to see!