Portals of Discovery

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy
and we're gonna make mistakes. ~Mel Brooks

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include
the freedom to make mistakes. ~Mahatma Gandhi

It was when I found out I could make mistakes
that I knew I was on to something. ~Ornette Coleman

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." ~James Joyce

Rufus pecanosaurus

When I first saw these tall red things at Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona,

I didn't know what they were.

Alien figures...exposed roots...giant blood vessels?

Later, I learned the full title of this playful life-sized 1988 piece:
Inverted Pecans in Ceremonial Red (Rufus pecanosaurus)

Stripped of their bark, five pecan trees
are painted red and installed upside down.

More information from Smithsonian Art Museum Research Information System (SIRIS).