getting interactive

"you see things; and you say, 'why?'

but i dream things that never were; and i say 'why not?'"

~ george bernard shaw

i pass by this abandoned lot every time i drive em to work in asbury park... in the summer, we have something called sculptoure - random pieces are placed throughout town... this lot was filled with cut down telephone poles... 

at first, there were only colored sleeves placed around the poles - christo-esque... and it stayed that way for a while... 

then, the totem faces began to appear... first in one color, and then in many, some even glow-in-the-dark... and i thought that was pretty cool -

and then, this past week - there were urban cairns! (cairns are piles of stones used as markers or to mark memorial spots,  the origin of the word dates from 15th century scottish gaelic)

even superman got in on it! 

i really love this interactive piece... tonight when i got out to take pictures, i added a cairn of my own... as a memorial spot, for this is where the old palace amusements stood with the face of tillie on it... and as a marker for a place of interest and growth... the art community is so great here... 

i thank this artist for making the work so accessible... for having a vision and seeing its potential... people walking by were talking about it, and some kids made a cairn... while they may not have known what they were recreating, they were making the piece more just by participating... 

art for every day - gotta love that...