Express yourself! Have at it!

We saw this nice box of chalk on an east Austin sidewalk the other day -- just waiting for people of any age to make their thoughts known. 
 

Origins of Medicine mural

This mural in the Medical Park Tower and its companion piece across the hall, are slated to be hidden in a remodeling effort by the building management. Strange!

Street art

Sometimes people put pieces like this out for public contemplation.

Wow! Yard art that really is!

Saw this sweet piece of yard art at a fancy house in South Austin the other day.

Sidewalk Art Gallery

In South Austin someone has used the area near a sidewalk for a found object art display.

Mandala!

Our friend Sara Hickman spent over three hours in the hot sun creating this mandala for us on the top of the parking garage across the way. It says, "We're in this together," "I love you so much," and "This too shall pass." She is an amazing talent.

Day 42-Inside Day

I carefully got the papers in from the hallway and unwrapped and washed my hands. That will be the only outside contact for today save perhaps sitting on the balcony in the evening. And maybe a step or two outside earlier if opening the door doesn't warm up the apartment too much after the sun goes over the top. As we navigate the apartment this is one of the paintings we see in the living room. It is by Doug Whitfield. We have six paintings by him around our apartment.

Day 34 - Inside

I'm cheating a little. I didn't post this on the 17th. Shut up in here, it's easy to forget to do things. This is a snap of some bookshelves in our office where there are a few books and some small collages by Laurie Frick. We are fans of her work. She is based here in Austin.

Day 32 - What's Inside

We are inside with a lot of books, art, and artifacts. This little painting cheers me up. It is by Jennifer Balkan who is a local artist we like very much.

More City Hall art

This striking portrait is also part of the artwork at City Hall.

Chair light, chair bright

Linda checks out the fancy artwork it the city hall lobby after we went there to vote.

Brazen bird

This bird sculpture has a lot of points going for it. It is outside of a gallery on West Sixth.

A Wise Place to Plug In?

This odd painting was for sale at the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar. As realistic as the sockets look, they were painted and quite large.

A Work of Art

Here is FFP posing in this stunning work by artist Josef Kristofoletti. According the Austin's Art in Public Places: "Topping ten stories tall, Tau Ceti creates a stunning optic experience as sunlight from surrounding buildings refract and correspond with the painted gradient color spectrum throughout the day. Tau Ceti references a single star in the constellation Cetus (pronounced: see tus) that is spectrally similar to our own sun." This is at the corner of Brazos and East Second.

That's some serious neon!

We went to vote at City Hal the other day and saw this tall animal made out of neon in the lobby.

Art at City Hall

Our city likes to hang the work of local artists in the lobby. We saw this piece when we went to vote on a recent afternoon.

Outdoor sculpture

I enjoyed seeing this piece of sculpture outside a local art gallery the other day.

Two idioms here

"Office Space" and "Dazed and Confused" are co-joined on this piece of art.

Too Long in the Sun?

These over-sized army men that seem to have melted were outside an art gallery on Springdale Road on the East Side.

The golden calf -- no, it's a pig!

This piece of art graced the shelf at Laguna Gloria.