The past week or two has brought us the fantastic large Noah’s Ark by Christian Werner. It is a design that has been years in the making, as Herr Werner worked and reworked the ark, and it is well worth the wait. Truly a masterpiece of Erzgebirge folk art!

The Werner workshop was not the only one working with this subject matter, it seems, as a recent NY Times article shows (“Giving Life to Found Objects, Two by Two”). The Skirball Cultural Center in LA has added a wing devoted to the Ark / Flood story, hiring a Brooklyn-based puppeteer to craft the unique animals. The artist, Chris Green, has used found objects in making the animals, reinforcing the exhibit’s underlying theme of environmental awareness and responsibility. The show has no Noah figure, and the center hopes that viewers will be inspired to follow in his role as custodians of the earth. An accompanying video provides some insight into the exhibition, as well as fantastic pictures of the animals Mr Green has created.

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