Thanks to @SarahEMyhre and other CHS readers for asking about the faces
(Image: Seattle Office of Arts and Culture)
A new temporary art installation has added colorful portraits to Cal Anderson Park.
Meanwhile, a prolific new(?) street artist has drawn attention with stylized faces popping up around Capitol Hill.
The Seattle Office of Arts and Culture says artist Jean Bradbury’s The People Make This Park will be on display around Cal Anderson through September. The “colorful, larger-than-life” portraits feature park-goers and include excerpts from interviews about the subject’s relation to the park. The project “speaks to the theme of how important land is to people,” the city arts office says.
Cal Anderson isn’t the only Capitol Hill park with temporary art. CHS reported here on the project that added 14 stone “benches” in Volunteer Park through next summer.
Meanwhile, a new Capitol HIll character is appearing on utility boxes and power poles, dining patios and dumpsters around the neighborhood as one of the more prolific street art efforts in recent memory is decorating mundane streetside items with graffiti featuring cartoon-worthy faces complete with googly eyes and wide-open mouths showing off zig-zagging tongues and jagged teeth.
https://twitter.com/SarahEMyhre/status/1569390755176943618
We don’t know who the artist is and we’re not sure what the faces are meant to depict but they seem to appear in the right places at the right time to provide just the right amount of goof to your travels around Capitol Hill. If this is some kind of viral marketing campaign or the roots of some unfortunate future meme, we apologize, but the art seems solid enough to overcome.
You can learn more here about the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture program making Jean Bradbury’s project possible and other parks with current installations.
You can learn more about the faces by walking around the neighborhood.
UPDATE: It’s marketing… and art: @bummercomix
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