Cary ahead of the curve on art!

[d4vendel]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4059997.stm

Cary already has lot of urinals in town! Can we cut the budget for public art now?

Does the fairer sex need to file a lawsuit since they do not get such "influential" works of art in their facilities?

And I thought the chrome mummy and widow blinds fish were silly.......

- David

[hollyL]

I don't think we allow "french" inspired things. :wink:

[Don]

No matter what art comes to Cary next, it will all be taking a back seat to the "Taking a Brake" sculpture down West Chatham Street. That piece is the bomb! :wink:

I "heard" the artist may be working on another piece as well......stay tuned!

[Don]

And I thought the chrome mummy and widow blinds fish were silly.......

- David

Not if you have a fish shaped window! :wink:

Do have one concern over the mummy though - during one of the last storms it "blew over"...seriously. Turns out it wasn't cemented down or anything. Did they solve this problem? Or could it fall on and injure someone still? On a different note, since the mummy (the piece is called "sentry" I believe) was installed, the Fidelity Bank has not been robbed - Which is really cool since that's my bank! I guess he's doing his job eh? :wink:

[Cathy]

I thought the "mummy" was an interesting purchase by the TOC for it's citizens.
It may be a warning by the artist that was strangely attractive to those who make decisions about Cary's "Quality of Life" directives.

Perhaps the artist's warning was to show where the Town is headed if they persist in enacting such restrictive ordinances on appearances, land use and signage.

Bound up tight on the outside and creatively dead on the inside.

Cathy
(who is anxiously waiting to see how the Town Staff reacts to your future site plan design, Don.)

[d4vendel]

The official name of the silver mummy is “Sky Sentinel.” I like Cathy’s interpretation of the piece! I actually find the work kind of interesting. I just always felt is seemed out if place in downtown Cary. I would prefer see art that reflects the history of Cary rather than modern art pieces.

Speaking of art being dangerous (and not in the artistic sense), my award for poorest placement to date goes to Anemotive Kinetic 4/97. This was probably better known to most citizens as the spinning silver dandelion that was installed on the corner of Academy Street and Kildaire Farm Road. I thought the piece would have been a nice addition to a park, but I could never understand why anyone would put a kinetic sculpture 10 feet from a busy intersection. I think people should watching the traffic and pedestrians rather than spinning artwork.

- David

[Cathy]

Wow, _I really like the official name of the "mummy"!

It weirds me out even more than the appropriateness of just the piece itself.
Not only may it be a prescient warning to the Town, but it may even be from the "Big Guy in the Sky"!! 8O

Maybe they should move all of the badly placed sculptures to the New Town Palace instead of installing the metal forest that they want.
:wink:

[Don]

The official name of the silver mummy is “Sky Sentinel.” I like Cathy’s interpretation of the piece! I actually find the work kind of interesting. I just always felt is seemed out if place in downtown Cary. I would prefer see art that reflects the history of Cary rather than modern art pieces.

You're right, that's his name. Thanks for the clarification. I agree, I would love to see more art that reflects Cary's history also. Widgery's "gates of Light" is a modern attempt at this - The spiraling pattern of the pipes (or whatever you want to call them) is supposed to represent Cary's growth spiraling outward, but The problem is that until someone from the art department explains this, noone seems able to see it. IMO, good try, but let's go back to the drawing board on this one. Others, as I am sure feel differently.


Speaking of art being dangerous (and not in the artistic sense), my award for poorest placement to date goes to Anemotive Kinetic 4/97. This was probably better known to most citizens as the spinning silver dandelion that was installed on the corner of Academy Street and Kildaire Farm Road. I thought the piece would have been a nice addition to a park, but I could never understand why anyone would put a kinetic sculpture 10 feet from a busy intersection. I think people should watching the traffic and pedestrians rather than spinning artwork.

- David

Agreed. This belongs in the middle of a garden planter or something. NOT across the street from one of the oldest buildings in town or a school crosswalk.

[Don]

I thought the "mummy" was an interesting purchase by the TOC for it's citizens.
It may be a warning by the artist that was strangely attractive to those who make decisions about Cary's "Quality of Life" directives.

I thought this was a temporary donation arranged by CVA? Did Cary actually fund this?


Perhaps the artist's warning was to show where the Town is headed if they persist in enacting such restrictive ordinances on appearances, land use and signage.

Bound up tight on the outside and creatively dead on the inside.

Thanks Cathy, I tried to figure out what it was supposed to represent, now I know.


Cathy
(who is anxiously waiting to see how the Town Staff reacts to your future site plan design, Don.)

It will be a bit, but stay tuned, it's coming. I actually took alot of photos for more ideas to give to the architect this weekend.......Universal Studios has some cool buildings! :wink:

[johnb]

"Sky Sentinel" ?

Chrome Crap would be more appropriate.

Shouldn't it be at a more appropriate location, like the airport?

Or some other location where most of us wouldn't have to see that unimportant, inconsequential metal drool?

I can see the statue of the station master at the train station, it is in an appropriate setting, it fits. Or that chrome thingy over by SAS, it's abstract and it's off by itself....it isn't in a visually disconcerting context. That chrome mummy thing is.