Artful Sunrise. Exploring the Cyberpunk Sculpture of Shoal Creek Trail: A Morning with Art and Nature

Hey, good morning, everyone. It's Wednesday morning. June 25th, it's a 7:41. This is Gary. I'm just easing into the day. Up on the Shoal Creek trail, uh, just a ways north of downtown. Up there is the intersection of Twenty-ninth and Lamar, and I'm just taking a look at the David Deming sculpture that sits right at the trailhead here. It's an interesting piece I've. I've come by a few times, it always reminds me of a cyberpunk version of Stonehenge, and uh. Let me just see if I can get the rising sun coming through the sculpture here, uh, kind of playing hard to get, but, um. Yeah, the, the artist, uh, David Deming was a. Uh, uh, faculty member at UT for some time and in his artist statement that just sits next to the sculpture, um, he. In fact indicates that the structure on top there is representative of a bird. I guess I can see the sort of swooping wings and and maybe the the beak there. um, and he invites us to contemplate a migratory patterns, uh. Migratory patterns of birds, but specifically the influx of people to Austin that began. In the 1980s. So there you have it, folks, uh, Shoal Creek Trail just off there in the background, Lamar and 29th behind me. And this is Gary for City vibe just easing into the day. Hey everyone, it's Wednesday morning. 7:46 a.m. This is Gary. I'm just on the Shoal Creek trail, a little ways north of downtown in a section of 29th and Lamar just up here and I'm out here with the David Demming sculpture that sits at the trailhead and uh. Just trying to capture the rising sun here coming through the sculpture. There it is. Um, this has always reminded me of a kind of cyberpunk Stonehenge, although the artist's statement, um. Actually talks more about the form on the top here. It looks like a bird. I can see the swooping wings and like a beak-like structure in front and uh. Yeah, Professor Demming, who was UT faculty for years, actually invites us to contemplate, uh, migratory patterns of birds and migratory patterns of people, uh, specifically the influx of folks, uh, into Austin in the 1980s. But a quiet morning out here. We had some rain yesterday, so it's a little bit on the humid side and there's the Shoal Creek trail just. Heading off down there. And Town Lake is uh just a couple of miles that way. All right y'all, you have a great day. Bye now.