{"id":2023,"date":"2018-07-13T00:20:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T00:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2018-07-13T00:20:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T00:20:06","slug":"you-cannot-enjoy-the-art-if-you-have-no-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/2018\/07\/you-cannot-enjoy-the-art-if-you-have-no-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"You cannot enjoy the art if you have no balls"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Let’s go! Let’go! Let’s go!” That was Juan’s battle cry. “They are leaving!”<\/p>\n

That was followed by a mad race to weigh anchor and push \u00d1and\u00fa as fast as she would go. The goal: catch one of the precious mooring buoys close to the Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park. We had kept a sharp eye on them with the binoculars after being sorely disappointed to find all the buoys taken.\u00a0 Following some crazy maneuvering and a show of amazing seamanship skills we were the proud renters of a white ball.\u00a0 We saw a competitor arrive a few minutes too late. We celebrated with a beer and a smug face.<\/p>\n

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After catching our breath we geared up and jumped into the water. It was colder than we expected and we were farther from the sculptures than we thought.<\/p>\n

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Praying woman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you have been a faithful follower you will remember (or maybe not, depending on your age) The Musician<\/em><\/a>, an underwater sculpture by Jason deCaires Taylor that left us in awe more than a year ago in The Bahamas. Well, in Grenada there are more than sixty pieces, most of them by him.<\/p>\n

They are eerie, delightful, spooky and hard to find. I don’t think we saw them all. They are hidden on the sides of rocks, on serpentine gullies and sun-dappled sand patches. I’ll let the images speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

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Vicissitude, 2006 . It’s a ring of 26 life-size cement children holding hands and facing outwards.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Amerindian art, one of 14 newer works added to the park. Made by local artist Troy Lewis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The selfie girl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was a long way back to \u00d1and\u00fa. I was distrustful of the low water visibility and kept imagining a lovely aquatic predator touching my legs with the soundtrack of Jaws in the background. It was funny predator Juan keeping the journey interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Let’s go! Let’go! Let’s go!” That was Juan’s battle cry. “They are leaving!” That was followed by a mad race to weigh anchor and push \u00d1and\u00fa as fast as she would go. The goal: catch one of the precious mooring buoys close to the Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park. We had kept a sharp eye on … Continue reading “You cannot enjoy the art if you have no balls”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/I6870_6080050.jpg?fit=1600%2C1190&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7GCAo-wD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}