Noticing Vol. 4
I love the visual complexity of cities. The ever-shifting variety of clutter to discover. This week, we have the Mint and Bell Systems architecture details. The wonderful sculpture I See What You Mean, AKA the giant blue bear by Lawrance Argent.
We took a little walking tour of downtown Denver.
If you have young kiddos children in the Denver metro I highly recommend a trip to the WOW! Children’s Museum in Lafayette. It is a mini Exploratorium for kids. They have a bunch of interactive areas kids get to explore, build, and learn. Each area also has a working phone. Kiddos can look up the number of the grocery store and call it from the pirate ship or the hospital. They have a variety of old phones from a classic rotary phone to a touch tone to this old payphone.
I love that our capital building breaks the grid and provides these great glimpses from further away.
Free Hand exhibit by Mark Shusterman at Leon Gallery in Denver closes tomorrow Jan 13, 2024.
From the exhibit explanation:
”Mark Shusterman has been residing in Denver his entire adult life, although he’s spent much of the last 10 years touring internationally with the band Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats as a founding member and keyboardist. Before the band’s success, Mark was a fixture of the Denver art and music scenes. His previous musical work was in the bands Widowers, The Blue Rider, Amlamas and many others. He was also the co founder of Win Wear, an art collective responsible for creating experiential art shows in the Denver area. The past few years has brought drawing back into his life as a way to find peace and focus amidst constant travel.
‘Free Hand’ presents a series of meditative drawings created while on tour. The space between sound checks and shows, cities and the studio, flights and the tour bus. The movements reflect nature, especially systems of growth. Lines sprout lines, like yeast and fungus. Mounds of marks rise and sink on the page forming pockets of detailed patterns. Gestures snake and coil like rope—quick and fleeting in moments and in other instances grounded by muscular enunciations of the pen.”
Public art or advertising?