Casa batlo' de Gaudi, Barcelona, Espana http://www.casabatllo.es/
Bottle Caps Giraffe, Washington DC at American Art Museum http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=24493
Aug 10, 2011
Philadelphia Magic Garden and my Project Proposal
http://www.phillymagicgardens.org/
The Magic Garden is an open air museum of art of recycle. The artist Isaiah Zagar created beautiful mosaics with recycle materials, such as bottles, bicycle wheels, tiles, broken clay cups, etc.
The idea of "transforming garbage into mosaics has been explored by many artists some of which listed below:
http://beautifuldecay.com/2010/07/21/green-art-10-artists-working-with-recycled-materials/
http://www.tomdeiningerart.com/headhunter.html
http://www.haschult.de/trash.html
My proposal will ask the opportunity of transforming one call box into something as colorful and aligned with the concept of sustainable art and repurposing of material as many of these artists have done, and as it is hinted by the ideas put forth by Art on Call.
Aug 2, 2011
Golden Triangle Surprise
Most of Golden Triangle's art consist of paintings on canvases, photographed and reported onto a metal sheet and positioned in the middle of the call box. In the back we can see the map of all the boxes that can be found in the area. In the corner of L and 21 there is the most fun of the boxes I have yet seen. Unfortunately I do not have a photograph of it. The artwork was printed on an oval-shaped table and place loosely in the call box with a metal rod going through it and secured in the middle of the box, so that the oval table could be turned. The work becomes interactive, in a way. The community might consider itself more engaged with this particular work of public art, rather than feeling passive with a small change of their environment that they might or might not notice.
Jul 29, 2011
Ideas for submission
SO I have been thinking about what my proposal should be.
I can we "use" the Art on Call project to our advantage. Considering that we are not a DC school, and almost none of us is a DC resident, it might be very hard.
However, since the call boxes project is basically a "recycling" project, perhaps it would be interesting to use recycled material to reinvent the boxes. They would become art themselves.. maybe with recycled glass or clay pieces, the boxes can be the canvas for a mosaic. The recycled material could be provided by DC tourists, or DC people, so that the work would be as much theirs as ours. We would have to discuss logistics. During my research I realized that much of the material that is used to fix the boxes comes from specific vendors. In our case, we would not need a locksmith or a professional painting company, because the refurbishing of the boxes would be entirely done by us.
This still needs some thinking!
More Photos from earlier travels
In order :
1-Mt. Pleasant. This is one of Michael's Sculptures. They can also be found int he Kalorama neighborhood.
2-Dupunt Circle. Very graphic and informative. The layout is the same in all the boxes, I mentioned in an earlier post about the number at the top being the original identification number.
3- Dupont Circle again.
4-Eastern market. My smile after a day of useless search. I could NOT find any call box.. this was next to the metro I was about to take to go home :-)
5, 6, 7, 8 e 9- Eastern market again. Front and back. The art work here is a bit more authentic (for all it means)
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