Week 4: Constant Change

This is the fountain at the Los Angeles Music Center . I actually took a few pictures (and I may post the second also at some point, because it's similar in content/perspective but a little closer), but this one was the one that spoke most of texture to me.

Water is often something I associate with softness, trickling or rippling. But here it's forceful, catching the light as it arcs up, and that sharpness is something I found - find - very compelling.

There's also the element of shadow on the pavement that I found interesting. It changes with the water (obviously) and that is part of what makes the texture of this piece so interesting - constant change.

I was also interested in the way that the water appears to change the texture of the stone. There's roughness and it meets roughness to create something slippery. Force is creating texture and then taking it away (from the water). If I set my hand on one of those jets it would probably hurt, but not because the innate texture of the water is rough. And seeing the water on the slippery surface of the sculpture provides a contrast.

I'm over-explaining this. I just think that this, along with the way that the droplets catch the light at the top of their arc (and let the light through in some places while creating shadow in others) makes this fountain so interesting.