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     Somewhere along the line (right here on AFI!) I learned that jury images need to show a constistency. The pieces need to look like they are all from the same DNA, so to speak. Ever since hearing that, I have had a concern that my jury images are too dissimilar, and that someday I should make them more cohesive. 

So this month, “someday” arrived. I designed and built new statement pieces that are similar to another jury image. In the process of designing, I gave thought to my design and thought processes. Then I started to wonder if anyone else has a similar process. Here’s mine: 

http://sandyartparts.blogspot.com/2016/09/harmonious-blends-making-show-piece.html

It would be very interesting to hear from the rest of you, as to your creative process, as well as thought process when it comes to making a show piece. Please share!

I'm corresponding with a group associated with

a Cinco de Mayo celebration regarding our solar

powered BubbleYou® Bubble Tower -the world's biggest bubble toy ® http://www.bubbletower.com/

So I'm wondering, What should a "Cinco de Mayo Bubble Tower" look like?

This is a 14 foot tall, four legged pyramid structure.

Each leg is covered , usually with some kind of textile,

although we have painted discarded vinyl billoards, and

even discarded burlap coffee sacks in previous designs.

Would /should the creation of the Cinco de Mayo design

 be part of the festival programming, during the event?

Or a collaborative effort, prior to the date?

Some ideas:
Quilt patches to be assembled on the date. Contest for the best patch?

Yarn bombing?

We could provide a white, blank canvas and the community provide one or more graffiti artists to create the art?

? Have four design teams, one for each leg of the Bubble Tower. Team members pay a fee to be on the team. This would give the festival some income. Just a thought.

? seek participation by various groups including: urban clothing design, skate board , cultural groups, community muralists and artists and??

Just some thoughts that keep me awake at 3 am ! ;>)
Feel free to weigh in with YOUR ideas, sane or crazy, provocative or not, be expressive! Thank you!

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Public Art Project on Tour in Basel, Manfred Kielnhofer

Shared by Austrian artist and designer Manfred Kielnhofer. The “Light Guards” project is further developed and become a ghost car touring in Basel art show during June 15 – 19 2011.

http://artobserved.com/2011/06/ao-on-site-art-fair-news-summary-and-final-photoset-art-42-basel-2011-in-closing/

Eccentric art was also at Basel, if not as dominant a presence as the traditional buys. Ghost Car by Kielnhofer was a large white van with hooded figures driving outside the fair, and the Bleifrei (which translates to Lead Free in German) Art Collective told Art Info: “Art is like Jesus; it died and it’s coming again.”

Manfred Kielnhofer, Ghost Car (2011) Basel, via Kielnhofer.com

The grim seeker after truth
Anyone wondering why these grim reaper style figures were seated on this white van - look no further than the latest installation from artist Manfred Kielnhofer. He is from Haslach an der Mühl, in the district of Rohrbach in Upper Austria, Austria, and is an artist and designer whose work usually centres around the human anatomy. His recent piece of art is the Ghost Car, which is a product of the developing ‘Light Guards’ project. This project surfaced from the theory that humankind has always been able to boast having guardians in different ways, in potential danger from only themselves. This idea intrigued the artist Kielnhofer, who approached it with his artwork, intertwining the theme of longing for security harboured by all humans. The Ghost Car portrays a sizely white van driving, seating sheet-covered figures. Perhaps this reflects individuality, exploration and recognition of current events in society, as it seems to interpret the theme by suggesting the hooded figures are looking to the drapes and car for protection as they are possibly ghosts, who are afraid of the life after death, and long for safekeeping.
By Alessia De Silva
http://austriantimes.at/news/Panorama/2011-08-06/35422/The_grim_seeker_after_truth
http://kielnhofer.com