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California Sculpture Slam 2015

The California Sculpture Slam 2015 at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art runs from September 25 to November 15, 2015. One of the exhibits has metallic octopus tentacles which seems to engulf the typewriter. When I saw the tentacles with a typewriter, I thought "how perfect it was to combine my childhood wonderment with my passion of writing and interest in the Victorian age of enlightenment."

The fascination with organic metal sculptures involving tentacles could be traced back to two movies seen as a kid. When my parents took me to San Francisco in my pre-teens I enjoyed seeing the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Ferry Building at Embarcadero especially because I saw them in a 1955 movie called 'It Came From Beneath the Sea.' Admittedly that was not the only movie that created the fascination with tentacles, alongside with some Victorian touch, Walt Disney's 'Jules Verne's 20,000 League Under the Sea' in 1954 also played a role on my impressionable young mind.

The typewriter octopus sculpture of interest, "Self Organization", was sculpted by Courtney Brown and is a must see if in the San Luis Obispo area between September 25 to November 15, 2015.

Links:
Courtney Brown http://cbrownsculpture.com/
San Luis Obispo Museum of Art http://www.sloma.org/ 
California Sculpture Slam 2015 http://www.sloma.org/exhibits/on-view.php?event=709
(September 25 to November 15, 2015)
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Location: San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 1010 Broad St, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401, USA

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