I was impressed with the new hotel. Its common areas included a number of small galleries that feature, shall we say, "different" art displays.
One gallery included displays of items of dated technology devices. Here are a couple.
The first is an array of laptops, the second a handsaw that is covered with a circuit board.
Another unusual piece was located in a stairway.
Other pieces were slightly more conventional, including this one that is comprised of symmetrically arrayed drawings of butterflies.
One piece that I especially liked was a mobile located in the hotel lobby. I worked quite a bit in post processing to isolate the mobile visually from its background.
Here is a shot of one portion of the mobile.
But my favorite piece of art was a painting of an individual. What was interesting was not the subject matter but the artist's technique, sort of a pointillism that featured "blobs" of paint rather than small dots.
In keeping with past practice, I took a number of shots of just a portion of the painting, which highlights the technique and shows that a seeming random collection of blotches of various colors can collectively create a recognizable subject.
It was at about this point that a security guard for the hotel approached to inform me that photography of the artwork in the hotel was forbidden. Oops. I thanked him and left the hotel with my camera to photograph the central atrium and related public portions of the building complex.
I did like the composition of one shot of an open staircase from a second level.
But most of the shots I took were of walkways between the various areas of the complex leading to the entrances. It was a sunny day and I liked the patterns created by the sunlight streaming through the glass-panelled arches above the walkways, including the reflections off the highly polished floors. Here are some of those shots. Some I left in color.
John
