Day 4318: Site-Specific Installations, and Piglet and Pooh.

    

"Pressure": junk mail collage, ink, digital.

  

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Monumental Site-Specific Installations 

“Dancing in the Sky” (2024), installation view at Coachella in Indio, California

Born and raised in bustling London, Morag Myerscough has always been keenly attuned to the rhythms of urban life and the patterns of community. Through large-scale, vibrant installations around the world, the artist emphasizes joy, optimism, and a sense of belonging.

Myerscough often incorporates words that convey positive values and local pride into vividly hued affirmations. A large archway installed in Paris, part of the installation “Love Letters,” plays on the French motto “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité” —liberty, equality, fraternity—adding fundamental societal principles like dignity, hope, and justice. On an adjacent structure, phrases like “Sing,” “Play,” and “This is how I love my city” brighten up pedestrians’ routes.

“Love Letters” (2024), Paris

The artist was also recently commissioned to create an expansive kinetic structure for Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April. “Dancing in the Sky” invited attendees to wander through a geometric forest of columns and spires, topped with contraptions that twirled in the wind. Myerscough’s immersive pieces follow her philosophy that “we make belonging,” welcoming visitors into playful encounters that provoke new ways of seeing their surroundings and thinking about togetherness, cooperation, and community.

Myerscough has recently completed a stage and seating installation connected to UEFA Euros 2024 in Munich, Germany, and is currently working on a permanent bus station structure in Leeds, U.K. She will also be releasing a line of jewelry in collaboration with Tatty Devine in the coming months. Explore more on the artist’s website, and follow Instagram for updates.

Details of “Love Letters”

Nighttime view of “Dancing in the Sky.”

Nighttime view of “Dancing in the Sky.”

“Dancing in the Sky.”

“(Leave) Space for Space” (2024), Amsterdam

Construction overview of “Nice to Meet You Again” (2024)

Details of “Nice to Meet You Again.”

Detail of “Nice to Meet You Again.”

Piglet and Pooh.

"Piglet?" said Pooh. 

"Yes?" said Piglet.

"I'm scared," said Pooh.

For a moment, there was silence.

"Would you like to talk about it?" asked Piglet, when Pooh didn't appear to be saying anything further.

"I'm just so scared," blurted out Pooh.

"So anxious. Because I don't feel like things are getting any better. If anything, I feel like they might be getting worse. People are angry, because they're so scared, and they're turning on one another, and there seems to be no clear plan out of here, and I worry about my friends and the people I love, and I wish SO much that I could give them all a hug, and oh, Piglet! I am so scared, and I cannot tell you how much I wish it wasn't so."

Piglet was thoughtful, as he looked out at the blue of the skies, peeping between the branches of the trees in the Hundred Acre Wood, and listened to his friend.

"I'm here," he said, simply. "I hear you, Pooh. And I'm here."

For a moment, Pooh was perplexed.

"But... aren't you going to tell me not to be so silly? That I should stop getting myself into a state and pull myself together? That it's hard for everyone right now?"

"No," said Piglet, quite decisively. "No, I am very much not going to do any of those things."

“But - " said Pooh.

"I can't change the world right now," continued Piglet. "And I am not going to patronise you with platitudes about how everything will be okay, because I don't know that.

"What I can do, though, Pooh, is that I can make sure that you know that I am here. And that I will always be here, to listen; and to support you; and for you to know that you are heard.

"I can't make those Anxious Feelings go away, not really.

"But I can promise you that, all the time I have breath left in my body...you won't ever need to feel those Anxious Feelings alone."

And it was a strange thing, because even as Piglet said that, Pooh could feel some of those Anxious Feelings start to loosen their grip on him and could feel one or two of them start to slither away into the forest, cowed by his friend, who sat there stolidly next to him.

Pooh thought he had never been more grateful to have Piglet in his life. 

 

 

 

 

  

 

A  4+ minute video, 43 Grupo,  here

 

 

 

  

 

Just because ...

  

red-tailed hawk 

 

Saturday's Smiles ... 

 

 

VW ART by Ichwan Noir

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

Day 4317: Trash and Found in Lisbon, and Lost Dog.

        

 

"Worn": junk mail collage, acrylics.

 

  

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Click : Christine Aguilera, Something Has a Hold

  

 

 

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New Trash and Found Object Murals by ‘Bordalo II’ on the Streets of Lisbon

MAY 25, 2015

CHRISTOPHER JOBSON

Artist Bordalo II (previously) uses old tires, bumpers, and other scraps of painted found trash to form towering 3D murals of animals on the streets of Lisbon, Portugal. Collected here are several pieces from the last few months, and you can see much more on Facebook.

Dog Lost then Found ...

A dog went missing last night and the owner was advised to put an item of clothing down at the area where it became lost (for the scent). Lots of people searched for the dog but to no avail. Then, first light this morning, the dog was found sitting on the owners coat that had been left. Good advice and maybe worth sharing?

 

 

  

 

A 1  minute video, Startled baby,  here

 

 

 

  

 

Just because ...

  

   

Western Bluebird

 

 

Friday's Smiles ...  

  

   

    

 

 

 

   

   

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 4316: Mirrored Monolith, and Throwback Thursday.

 

"Gravity": junk mail collage, digital.

 

  

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Click : Smokey Robinson, Just To See Her.

 

 

 

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 Monolith Found in Nevada Desert

The Las Vegas Police Department confirmed that the monolith was found along a popular hiking trail over the weekend. A mirrored monolith was just spotted in the desert, and Las Vegas police have no idea how it got there. In a post on Facebook that was shared on June 17, the Las Vegas Police Department confirmed that a monolith had been found along a popular hiking trail. “We see a lot of weird things when people go hiking like not being prepared for the weather, not bringing enough water... but check this out!,” police said.

“Over the weekend, Las Vegas Metro Search and Rescue spotted this mysterious monolith near Gass Peak north of the valley. How did it get up there??,” the post continued accompanied by two photos of the large reflective object. Police went on to encourage hikers to stay safe while hiking.

With a summit of almost 7,000 feet, the Gass Peak hiking trail is the highest peak in Las Vegas and is about 20 miles from the north of the city, according to CBS News. Of course, this hasn't been the only mysterious monolith sighting in recent years. Shortly after it was found, the illegally placed structure, which prompted social media conspiracy theories that it’d been placed by aliens, was removed — but not by the Bureau of Land Management.

Throwback Thursday

me, Demura Sensei, Wendy

Demura Sensei and students

1980 Shito-Ryu Karate-Do Championships

Yoyogi Stadium, Tokyo, Japan  

 

 

 

 

  

 

A  4+ minute video, Grasshopper couldn't leap,  here

 

 

 

  

 

Just because ...

  

Bat falcon

 

  

 

Thursday's Smiles ...