(Still not the woodchuck, although she enjoys them as a snack)
I am a proud participant in the Cicada Parade-A, a public art project happening around the city of Chicago and neighborhoods. As the real heroes emerge from the warming soil, so will these 18 inch plaster casts painted by anyone who is as fascinated by the bugs as I am.
My cicada is called “Monument with Flying Beast”; it is a tribute to the piece of public art by Jean Debuffet that stood in front of the State of Illinois building downtown for forty years. Now that Google has bought the building, the sculpture will be moved to the Art Institute. The original piece was called “Monument with Standing Beast” and the abstract work represented an animal, tree, portal and architectural form, which also kind of applies to a cicada, amiright?
Public art endures as long as humans create! #cicadaparada
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