Samantha McCurdy

 

 

A Less Obtrusive Parking Space Divider

KDe Lotto's concrete graffiti

Kwok Pan’s Concrete Graffiti

City gnome

From time to time city looks like very serious, predictable, monotonous, muzzy place, where is no time and place for fairly tailes, for our imagination. Even thought we spent there long, time and there is still a lot of free, spaces. Where are all princes, wizard, gnomes, nymphs……
We don’t find them in the city – usually they are living in the forest, but some part of Baltimore city looks like a forest, kind of magic place: under highways, nearby M&T stadium where many ways crisscross together create big intersesction – highway, railway, lightrail, and also City and nature, centre and perifery. There is just piece of earth with grass and three, place of nobody.
This is a homeland of mystery, magic moment in the city. It’s an exposed structure of the city which we ussually don’t perceiving. But today there is something strange – Gnome who calling with cellphone….hmmm..probably he needs a taxi!

Adam Rybka

Cathy Johnson’s Final

I’ve jumped a couple weeks ahead of schedule for the final as I wanted to be able to observe my work over a period of time. I installed mine along Howard Street this morning. If you feel up to it you can walk along the light rail tracks towards Mulberry to see them all (or ride the light rail I suppose). There are two of each. I figured I should tell you guys right away in case you wanted to see them in person, there’s no telling if/when they will get pasted over with the latest blockbusting movie and/or album.

Ben’s Concrete Graffiti

 

Samantha McCurdy

construction

i’m not quite sure how this is working… but it looked cool.

bottles (becky slogeris)

 

Site specific hand-built and cast.

The railroad has long been a curiosity of mine.  I love it’s overlapping of steel and wood.  I’ve used railroad ties, track, and hardware in my work as  reference to a metaphorical journey or passageway.  I’m also interested in the idea of an object as a barricade.  The four concrete forms stand side by side in a sort of regiment.  They adopt humanistic qualities and the top heavy sections sway slightly in the breeze.  The piece is active.  There is a stressful build up of grinding potential energy as the top heavy forms stress the flimsy quarter inch rod frames and challenge the concrete’s tensile strength.  Cracks run through the sections like winding veins and the form becomes life-like.