Some Tuesday street art from our Out of Bounds Gallery today! Here's a signal-box quadriptych I found whilst being a pedestrian in downtown Long Beach this last Saturday:
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| Artist unattributed, Cosmic Chicken of Long Beach, paint on sidewalk signal box. |
This is what is good about getting on your feet and walking around. You miss stuff like this if you're in your car. I realize there are many friends of mine who would say "And that's a good thing..." but boo to them.
The chicken for us humans meant civilization, so why not revere it? For all of us on diets, it's practically the only meat we're allowed to eat, so that means it's the basic, the default, the thing from which we start doesn't it? Everything else is affectation and ornamentation and bravado--beef, pork, lamb, sheep, goat, dog, buffalo, deer, camel, antelope, wildebeest.The artist gives us the chicken in four kinds of light, sun, moon, electric, and the green panel appears to be gas or kerosene lantern and maybe firelight or perhaps a portable TV down at the chicken's breast. The chicken's form is crude, childlike, and basic, but clearly identifiable. Distilled to the pure form, yet rendered in four ways.
Contemplate our feathered benefactor at your next meal, which, odds on, is one who gave his/her life for you.
AND HERE IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE ON THE COAST TODAY
It's a blue-on-blue day in the Bu today. Just a wisp of cloud.
Have a great Tuesday.
Love,
Pops
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