Crabby

Art is where you find it. While waiting for a flight at Baltimore Washington International, I had a chance to wander around the terminal. There are flocks of geese, sculptures, tile mosaics ... art around every corner. Someone put a lot of time and money into the art at this airport. Usually, I'd be too busy to notice; what with tickets, baggage, full body scans. On this trip, however, I was only the chauffeur ... and we were early! So I had a chance to really look at the art. Generally, I don't like art. I don't understand it, and I don't like to think about it either. Why are some of the geese brown and the others white? Who keeps them clean and painted? How many are there anyway? They remind me of running greyhounds, but why are they all going the wrong direction?

There was one piece of art I found truly captivating: a giant blue crab made of stained glass. The stats were impressive: over 500 lbs, 5500 man hours to create, 8 feet across the points. This is the largest stained glass blue crab in the world; but how many more can there be? One of its claws has rounded points and the other has pyramid shaped spiky points; why aren't they both the same? Why is one of its swimmers raised? Who would think up such a thing in the first place? Is there a Stained Glass Crab Collector's Society of America?



Just for grins I ran a search on that exact phrase and the number one search result was:

http://baltimore.org/attractions/

I don't see anything there about a Stained Glass Crab Collector's Society of America. Maybe I just don't know how to interpret their site; but I don't have a lot of time to prove the negative - that there is no such society. Why doesn't the search engine just say "No", instead of 1 - 10 of 20,600 for Stained Glass Crab Collector's Society of America ?