World leading public art exponents, the Barsky Bros, are well worth a read, look.
The city is a nice place you always think about escaping…
High in a rocky tree-covered area between two busy highways, a minature Swedish summer cottage painted traditional red with white trim suddenly appeared. Of course, it didn’t actually appear, klisterpete and akay carried it up there. They built the red picket fence to surround the tiny grassy area. They hung the clothes line across the yard. They brought the promise of the swedish countryside everyone wants to escape to, right into the middle of the city. They took an unused, unappreciated space and made it a charming and peaceful place of wonder despite the traffic below, the train passing on its tracks behind, buildings stretching out farther behind those…
What if more people made the places they ARE the places they WANT TO BE? It’s not so hard.
You can also see another, perhaps better, perspective of this thought provoking art here on Stating the Obvious. Check the back, right? What do you see??? Mmm, plenty of places to live….if only we had a certain carrot helping rather than hindering us. What carrot may that be?
