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March 2009 
What kind of art would you place in your community?
Posted on Nov 17th, 2008
by 
CleaD
CleaD
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for November 13, 2007:
Interactive art. Installations and sculptures that invite the viewers to participate in some way. Especially children. And if the interaction could be something inspiring or far-reaching, all the better.
There is a piece in Longmont, Colorado, where enough weight on the platform below makes the metal sails overhead move. It is the weight of 100 infants or 10,000 butterflies, if I remember correctly. It makes one think. I might improve upon it by adding a website link where people could donate to end hunger or protect butterfly habitat.
Green technologies could be used to insire and invite participation somehow. Like... what if time on a stationary bicycle generated energy that went into an elementary school's grid, or pressing a button would play music to algae that would eventually be used as biofuel...
hmm...
There is a piece in Longmont, Colorado, where enough weight on the platform below makes the metal sails overhead move. It is the weight of 100 infants or 10,000 butterflies, if I remember correctly. It makes one think. I might improve upon it by adding a website link where people could donate to end hunger or protect butterfly habitat.
Green technologies could be used to insire and invite participation somehow. Like... what if time on a stationary bicycle generated energy that went into an elementary school's grid, or pressing a button would play music to algae that would eventually be used as biofuel...
hmm...
Access: Public
I'm a fan of art expressing the uniqueness of the individual bent on fostering appreciation for a person's individulaity, stepping outside of the confines of whatever conformation people find themselves entwined in. I also would display artwork displaying the love between parents and their children, even if you don't plan to have kids its still a reminder of when you were small. If it was a good childhood it strikes a memory of love from the source your body came from that is identical from the source your soul comes from, and if it was bad then perhaps a chance to think and accept the past, and perhaps even to connect to that source of the soul that models the parental love.