Andy Goldsworthy

As Eric pointed out, how did that conversation begin when Andy Goldsworthy approached the Parque del Retiro officials? Maybe, "Hi, I have a lot of big logs. May I come stack them very precariously in your glass house?"

The exhibit was breathtaking... Christina, I wish you could have been there. Goldsworthy built three huge domes (you can walk inside), plus an egg-shaped sculpture, made entirely of and only Scots Pine from the forests north of Madrid in the Palacio de Cristal. The egg sculpture was the most amazing, mostly because it was hard to believe it wasn't going to collapse the next moment. About ten feet high, it was smaller on the bottom, grew out, and then peaked at the top, exactly like an egg. We weren't supposed to take pictures inside, but Eva did anyway, so I will post one when she emails them to me.

We also went to the Reina Sofia and saw Picasso's Guernica, plus about a billion and two other Picasso paintings, sketches, and sculptures, and an Alexander Calder mobile.