Blog #4: Art in the Park

Heavy Duty

Safety's Demise 

You go out thinking you know what you’re looking for but the truth is you don’t necessarily know, until you see it. I went on a run with my girlfriend around Prospect Park, specifically: West Drive, Brooklyn, NY, 11215. As we approach the 2½mile mark, we run across Safety’s Demise. The orange safety cone inside a pothole couldn’t have been more perfect. The triangle shape cone sinking into the street is almost abstract if you think about it. Playing with the idea of interrupted organic shapes. The gray cement pavement did not only bring out the orange color of the cone but also because it had just stopped raining and the sun came out. The value in this picture is great, the viewer can clearly identify where the sun is in relation to the cone.  As an artist I tried to choose an angle that best complimented the circle [base] of the cone but also where the sun emphasized the vividness of the orange.

I love Heavy Duty, so ironic that these heavy-duty traffic barrels are “rolled out”, [pun?] Also found this on our run, this was early as it stopped raining around the 1¼-mile mark. On the same path in Prospect Park, Park Slope: West Drive, Brooklyn, NY, 11215. What stood out to me the most, as an artist was the immediate pattern that I recognize? The pattern is the barrels, one after another and you can almost say it never ends because you don’t see the whole picture. And if you continue to speculate, the barrels are coming towards the viewer, almost like an attack, jumping out the frame. The shape of the barrel is circular, or at least the base is, and you see what seems to be perfect circle after circle, and the emptiness of the each circle, playing with the idea of negative space. Of course color is another reason these barrels stood out. Especially orange, such a vivid and eye catchy color, probably the reason officers, etc. decide to use them so much.