It was perhaps the most striking work at last weekend’s Art All Night, this year again at 31st Street Studios in the Strip District.2014 45th Anniversary & Volunteer Appreciation Thursday, December 4, 2014 5:00-8:00pm CityScape Community Art Space 335 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver Harper was speaking metaphorically of both the losing of minds and murder, but she certainly found time to create. The art piece, titled I Lost My Mind, is by Erin Harper.

No, the walls and floor of each interior room are decked-out, each in a different over-the-top theme. The decoration is not limited to the exterior of the house. Small toys, buttons, shells, bottle caps, and other found objects have been hot-glued to its surfaces along with a loose collage of magazine cuttings, product packaging, and patterned prints. The three-story, Victorian-style dollhouse is covered with a blitzkrieg of … everything. The words are painted and collaged onto a set of five entrance steps to an elaborately over-the-top front porch. “I Lost My Mind” (detail) by Erin Harper was included in Art All Night 2023 Sometimes a picture may be worth even more than a thousand words. So that ultimately won out, even if these aren’t our finest photos.įinally, if you’ve got a great parking chair, a photo of one, or a story about them, we’d love to hear about it or get tagged on it. So you’ve got to get this little thing in front of really big thing and then houses have all this visual noise distracting you, blah, blah, blah-it ain’t easy.Īnyway, the oddly routine experience of seeing single chairs randomly in the street is also right up our, ahem, alley. You want to see the chair, sure, but it’s (usually) only interesting in the context of a much larger thing-an entire house or a row of them-that it’s related to. I know, I know-boo hoo to this guy living the dream making fat stacks taking pictures of street chairs in Pittsburgh- do your job, amirite? It ain’t that easy, buddy. Parking chairs are also really difficult to photograph well. The Over-the-Wall Club: What’s on the Other Side?įor the last eight years The Orbit has resisted the urge to park our behind in this most predictable of subjects d’Burgh-it seemed too easy and too obvious. You can visit any time and if you’re looking for an excuse, the fence will be featured for the Doors Open event in the South Side on September 23. Getting there: Delli Speers fiber fence is on Wrights Way, between 24th and 25th Streets, on the South Side. Visit soon, visit later, while the sun is shining and when there’s snow on the ground-you’ll be glad you did. It is a constantly evolving environment of beautiful, fun, and wacky invention-some of it bright and new some of it experiencing the passage of time with all the sun-bleached, rain-soaked, and ice-cracked weathering Pittsburgh’s seasons will throw at it. There is no wrong way to see Wrights Way. People like to walk their dogs down the street.” “I have a lot of tchotchkes up there but mainly to fill up the fence and make it colorful. “I’m all for it,” she says, “I’m willing to take my stuff down”. Speers welcomes contributions to the fence from others, especially from fiber artists and neighbors, but prefers people to reach out to her first. Speers has expanded her reach to festoon the telephone poles and gas meters with whimsical knitted snakes and other creatures.ĭelli Speers with Flo and Flavius Flamingo and the South Side Flamingo Sentries

Above them a sign reads Presenting South Side Flamingo Sentries. Someone Stole Her! A month later, Flo was back with the message Thank you for returning Flo! Now, a row of pod-shaped creatures with black hats and googly eyes stand guard over the flamingos. A coffin and knitted skeleton hand was tacked to the fence with the message Rest in Peace, Flo Flamingo, 2023.

Speers responded with a wry visual message. Fixtures of the fence have been Flo and Flavius Flamingo, two plastic pink flamingos that Speers knits outfits for, changing them with the seasons.Īt one point Flo Flamingo was stolen, taken from the fence. One of the major themes of the fiber fence is Speers’ sense of playfulness and humor, the sheer fun she has with this project. The original, as created by Judy Manion (left) along with two more weathered versions rearranged by Speers and used in subsequent exhibitions.

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