If you click on the picture above, you can see it in more detail. Our writer Nancy Green created this chalk painting, entitled Season of Change, at The Providence Street Painting Festival, held this year on October 4th. It’s a striking tribute to the times we’re in. Our local banking buildings, the historic landmarks of our own economic prosperity in Providence and Rhode Island, are portrayed within a surreal landscape of hope and fear. Embedded in the background is the symbol for yin and yang and contained within the smaller circles of the symbol are visions of a dove extending its wings, reaching for a better future, and a plane dovetailing and possibly crashing our tall buildings, evoking destruction and terror, failure and loss.
There were many wonderful artistic visions being made real at this festival. One group was working from a portrait of Martin Luther King, struggling to convey the legendary intensity of his expression. Others were more playful, such as a portrait of Peach from Super Mario Galaxy. Many people were working from photographs, but not Nancy. She was gazing up at the buildings above her, and mixing what she saw with her imagination and her knowledge of the crisis and opportunity in our midst. It rained the next day, and so, as a keen reminder of the temporality of all things bold and beautiful, this vision, Season of Change, was washed away.
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nice use of color-how about sand castle contests?seen some of the neat stuff they make at those?and they only last until the tide comes in
yes! i am a fan of ephemeral art. my inspiration is the Tibetan monks who made a sand mandala at the RISD museum several years ago. they were very focused, like carpenters or masons building a wall. after the mandala was completed they swept up all the sand and poured it into the Providence River. our river has been blessed by Save the Bay and a few Tibetan rituals since, and actual fish swim in it now.
Want to see a good film on Tibetan exiles?It’s called Dreaming Lhasa and the leading “actress”is actually a Tibetan refugee who came to the US as a toddler and works as a banker near DC.It’s a well-done film.