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Tuesday January 18, 2022 subscribe |
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| a lot of
irony here at the corner of broadway and east
harrison. installed in 1981, the sculpture
below by Rich Beyer is called The Itinerant, a euphemism for bum at the tail end of simpler times when living on the street could still be romanticized as a lifestyle choice by some. i have no idea if the awning is a defunct bus shelter or part of the art, but the lumpy recumbent aluminum figure strikes me as kissing cousin to hostile architecture. i bet the person sleeping on the wet ground would rather use the bench, perhaps dreams of a mattress just out of reach on the other side of the wall. |
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