The first was the downtown Anthropologie store . . .


It's a crazy juxtaposition between the architecture of the old building and the wacky, modern flow of the orange sticks . . .

I also wandered into the Magic Gardens, a raw mosaic folk art wonderland created by artist Isaiah Zagar. He's done mosaic mural projects all over Philadelphia . . . while he was at it, he also did mosaic over every surface in his studio and transformed the vqcqnt lot next door into a mosaic maze of quotes, drawings on ceramic, and well, junk, cemented together. Like most outsider art, photos don't really do it justice: you've got to be there.





And if you're keen on seeing a huge variety of mosaic art locally, I understand that this years Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts is having an exhibit called Cutting Edges - the largest fine art mosaic exhibit in the U.S. (at least according to their press release).
What a lovely and inspiring blog! The installation of orange sticks is quite nice, and the mosaic murals are beautiful. Thank you for the art tour.
ReplyDeleteWow, what beautiful shots. I love the people walking past the orange sticks installation, because it gives a better sense of scale and color.
ReplyDeletetravel is good for the art soul. :)
ReplyDeleteBeen to the Magic Gardens. Pretty amazing. And that store display looks so cool!
ReplyDeleteOur Anthropologie brings the *awesome* every damn time. The previous window installations were three massive, beautiful beehives. One was made out of books, one was fabric scraps, and the last was rolls of paper. Each had a light inside so they glowed. Magnificent!
ReplyDeleteI concur that the orange sticks rock the house.