On a Saturday morning Grasshopper and I headed to Stanford to do some field sketching and we found ourselves in front of the university’s latest public art.

This piece is an extended Corinthian column rearing up to look like a cobra about to strike. It bears the all too prosaic title of “Hello”. It was completed in 2021 by Xu Zhen.

I would think a better title for the sculpture would be “Column-Snake of Death” or “Columnar Churro of Doom” or even “Goodbye!”.