Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Pointillism Peace

On Airport Way (in an industrial zone in Seattle, out of the beaten path), a linked fence surrounds a bus depot. An eyesore as such could be deliberately ignored; if it had a wall, it might even have some graffiti on it.

Still, some very talented artist (or artists) decided to give this fence a twist with a very imaginative idea: inserting white “dots” in the holes of the fence and producing an image, like pointillism artists did in the 1800s —or like pixels produce images in our screens today.

We were driving by, and I could just catch two images of the entire fence (about four or five in total). Yet both images clearly depict what this art is about: Peace —and how serendipitous that just the past week we were Celebrating Peace Day :)

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