Venezia


Between Harmony Lane and Serenity along The Devil's Backbone hidden among scrub oaks and cacti is a sculpture called The Angel Ring. An open cell-tower-like aluminum structure, like the inside of a snowflake or kaleidoscope, it forms a framework for blue sky, for night time planets. If you lie beneath to stare upward or picnic, a friendly cat may assault your scalp, meteors may fly across the western sky, you may see light from a fabric of stars too distant to be seen or raining from the sculpture itself. The tube-like interior structure focuses your gaze to a diminishing point. The sculpture's orderly complexity is a quiet antidote for the chaos of life, as though gazing at its intricate symmetry of windows might help your brain sort and hold all of your mysteries and confusion in one simple web.

And, it is beautiful.