Urban Spirit Reclamation Leage

[learnteach]

Taking suggestions for artworks that you see, briefly, from the corner of your eye in the local settings that remind you that the genus loci are still there. Goal is to have work parties to make them, then take pictures of them for a while while the environment and people modify them. Theme is the spirits of these places around us, which both emerge from the earth and have been brought along with us from other places. Any mythology, ancient, modern, historical, fantastical, will do.

So far:

Silhouette (sp) deermen--cutouts in the bushes along the freeways, with antlers, which when glimpsed are the silhouettes of deer spirits or shaman.

Freeway Earth Spirits--lips, nose, eyes, emerging from the sound barrier walls.

NeonPelli: Kokopelli figure out of EL wire that flashes on and off after headlights sweep over it. Mod 1 is headlight responsiveness, mod 2 is to have the musical instrument change: Flute, saxophone, tubapelli!

Corriboggles: little grasping ovalheaded figures with reflective eyes, made out of cardboard, distributed in an area.

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First work party in two weeks. More later.

(1) This has been a pro wierd post.

Comments

[gatcat.livejournal.com]

Count me in, keep me posted.

[channel6.livejournal.com]

Let me know if there are any work weekends AFTER Burning Man. At this point, I'm in that long tunnel leading to the Black Rock....though I will be at an SCA event or two before then.

This will be a long term project

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

I'm envisioning a year or two of doing this.

[judith-s.livejournal.com]

Face in the tree is traditional.

As is sand dune modification, although I'm not quite sure what the spirit would look like there.

If you want to be particularly athletic, sketching a nereid on a rock that juts from the ocean would be excellent.

But what about

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

chainlingfence spirits? The little guys who hang around the back of 7-11's? The spirits in the mall parking lots of lost shoppers looking for their cars? Are there shopping cart spirits? What has become of Kokopelli, Thor, Freya, redcaps?

Re: But what about

[(Anonymous)]

Missed the "urban" part and just focused on the visibility and interesting evolution/erosion aspect.

The spirits of lost shopping cards must be implemented. You know it has wheels. Maybe also the spirit of lost cars in huge parking lots. Although somehow I see that as beeping horns.

Re: But what about

[judith-s.livejournal.com]

That was me.

[jeanvieve.livejournal.com]

I love the code you and Kurt share with each other.

Tygersharks!

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

Found whereever booze of good quality hits flesh of intelligence!