Thursday, June 18, 2015

iT'S STreeT arT THursDay! and Malibu morning picture - Thursday, June 18, 2015

Dear Street Art Lovers (and assorted family, friends, and others),

Today, from the school of symbolic imagery, we have something that has a name on it, Clockworks, signed by the artist Annie Sperling with a cast of helpers.

Artist Annie Sperling, et al., Clockworks, 1997, major detail on right, paint on concrete block.



























It was not really possible to get a good street shot of the whole thing because the street is SO busy and it's rare not to have cars parked in front of it on the street. This is at Santa Monica and Virgil.














This has been up for awhile as you can see in the upper corner of the title card (1997). This falls in the category of public art seeing as it has credits to not only the artists, but to several civic organizations, including a national corporation (7-Eleven/Southland) and an L.A. councilmember (Jackie Goldberg).

On the left side of the mural, we have this blue tree stretching out, along with its red and yellow leaves.



I'm sure this is one where everything has meaning, but all we can do today is look at it for its own sake. We have a Latino dancing couple, silhouetted as they do their dance in front of a great sun, indicated as a clock. All atop a indigenous blue god underfoot who observes.

The blue god becomes an urban landscape which bleeds into a background of timepieces.

The number of assistant artists (I count 24) seems to tell me that this is a classroom project for a group of students. (If these were high school kids, they're probably all men and women in their mid-30s now.) Time has pushed them toward middle age, but the stamp of their youth endures. Two murals I worked on as a teen in the area are long gone...

This is pretty well untouched (there are a few hater's overwritten names). Being eight years old, it's a little faded, but it's mos def a part of the landscape on the border between Hollywood and Silverlake. The store wall that it is on is a 7-Eleven (hence the credit to the parent company).

Here's a highly foreshortened shot of the whole thing. The gentleman in front heckled me and asked me for spare change as I was taking this pic.





































All of the scraping like damage you see on the upper left comes from where ivy-like vegetation had been allowed to cover the work in years past. It was later removed, but the paint damage remains.

AND NOW BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED SEASCAPE:

Serial #: JG15-12 (18)



























It's misty this morning. fog is light, but no ocean is visible today. Trust me, it's out there. Thought I'd zoom in a little--mornings like this give you 6-7 layers in your visible close landscape of trees. Again, cool and misty in the AM, but it'll be clear and a bit hot in the afternoon.

Have yourself a wonderful Thursday.

Love,
Pops


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