Pointless Prize: Public Art Finder
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“Reach for the Star” #yardart on the 200 block of E Alexandria Ave, ALX VA (near Holiday Card Lane in Del Ray)
my bike’s computer and bar mitt are the fuzzy foreground at the bottom of the pic.
Belated (by a few minutes!:-0) 1/24/25 –
My bike leaning against OZ [but not KANSAS which is further down the street], inspired by the Wizard of Oz. OZ and KANSAS were created by artist Brandon Hill of All Day Projects as an adaptive reuse of two temporary encasements for the new transitway extension at National Landing on 12th Street S (corner w/ Long Bridge Drive)
In advance, my apologies to my fellow Public Art Finders. I have been travelling and squeezing in rides in the evenings and posting my art finds has fallen off…so I am here to post 4 in a row to catch up. I hope these bring a small amount of pleasure.
January 21, this is on a wall at the entry to a bicycling/walking bridge (tied into a rail bridge) over the Neckar River in Germany at the town of Ladenburg. Rather than a large mural, it consisted of multiple smaller subjects. They appear to be quite old and weathered, and the bridge has been in place for a long time by its appearance.
January 22, I arrive in Stuttgart (my old home from 2015ish to 2020). Besides riding a lot of the old tracks I still know, I decide to go find pieces of public art, some street paintings and such and of course some striking sculpture. This one is a mural, that has become a bit of a “canvas” for burgeoning street artists, where more established (and in one case a sanctioned) street artists mentor and teach the newcomers. The installations here are frequently in a “Stan Lee” style. It’s an underpass from the Cold War that permitted tanks to transit the forest between two Kaserne by passing under a busy public road between Vaihingen and Boeblingen.
January 23, I did a chill 50km loop with almost 700m of total climbing (yes, there are a lot of hills, big hills, around Stuttgart) that included a nearly 150m winding descent into Gerlingen, the village I used to live in, with the obligatory climb back out just like I used to do on my way to work most days. I stopped int he center of town to capture the bust sculpture of Friedrich Schiller, an important historical figure in the town from the 18th century. The sculpture always looks surreal at night with how the streetlights cast shadows on the face…
Janaury 24, I rode to Bad Canstatt (well known for the location of the Canstatter Wasen, aka Stuttgart’s twice annual fest…spring and Oktober!) to meet an old pal. We did a murderous climb up onto the Rotenberg and then transited the forest, with a final descent back to Bad Canstatt for a some beers and catching. On the way to meet him I passed through the Unter Schlossgartn (the “lower” palace garden) and took a photo of the Kleiner Brunnen and its “nymph.” It’s much prettier in the spring and summer…but, alas Freezing Saddles happens in the winter!
January 25, and on the same day! Finally. Saw this decorated garage/barn just on the western edge of Tübingen. It deserves to be featured, because there is no reason a barn should be boring. And this one is not!
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