Showing posts with label Mary Lucking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mary Lucking. Show all posts
Friday, September 22, 2017
Miss Muffet's Tuffets II (maybe a mural part 80)
Miss Muffet, better known as Mary Lucking, in collaboration with Dwayne
Arnspiger made cast-concrete tuffets that form the bases for eight
different ceramic tile mosaics. They placed them along the Arroyo Chico
Greenway in 2013 where I found them on Aug. 10, 2017. I posted four on Sept. 15. Here are the rest:
Click on any photo for a slide show of larger and sharper images.
Friday, September 15, 2017
Miss Muffet's Tuffets I (maybe a mural part 79)
Miss Muffet, better known as Mary Lucking, in collaboration with Dwayne Arnspiger made cast-concrete tuffets that form the bases for eight different ceramic tile mosaics. They placed them along the Arroyo Chico Greenway in 2013 where I found them on Aug. 10, 2017. Here are four for now. I will post the rest in a week or so.
Click on any photo above for a slide show of larger and sharper images.
I had to take two of the photos from a side angle to keep my shadow off the mosaic.
I had to take two of the photos from a side angle to keep my shadow off the mosaic.
Monday, July 17, 2017
Maybe a mural, part 76
Roundabout at N. 9th Ave. & W. 5th St.
Mary Lucking was commissioned by the Tucson/Pima Arts Council in 2003 to create artwork for three Roundabouts in the Dunbar/Springs Neighborhood. This is the third of the three.
Mary has used her art to tell the story of the neighborhood. Mary also filled the center with desert plants. Here are the results:
Note - The photo of the west side had to be taken at an angle due to lens flare from the morning sun.
Some of the panels are starting to show the effects of age and weathering. It also looks like there was some vandalism that had to be painted over.
Click on any photo for a slide show of larger and sharper images.
Mary Lucking was commissioned by the Tucson/Pima Arts Council in 2003 to create artwork for three Roundabouts in the Dunbar/Springs Neighborhood. This is the third of the three.
Mary has used her art to tell the story of the neighborhood. Mary also filled the center with desert plants. Here are the results:
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| North Side |
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| South Side |
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| East Side |
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| West Side |
Some of the panels are starting to show the effects of age and weathering. It also looks like there was some vandalism that had to be painted over.
Click on any photo for a slide show of larger and sharper images.
Friday, July 14, 2017
Maybe a mural, part 75
Dunbar/Spring Roundabout at N. 9th Ave. & W. 1st St.
Mary Lucking was commissioned by the Tucson/Pima Arts Council in 2003 to create artwork for three Roundabouts in the Dunbar/Springs Neighborhood. This is the second of the three.
Mary has used her art to tell the story of the neighborhood. Mary also filled the center with desert plants. Here are the results:
Note - The bottom panel of the East Side photo is probably a reference to the old Court St. Cemetery. See Neighborhood atop cemetery
Some of the panels are starting to show the effects of age and weathering.
Click on any photo for a slideshow of larger and sharper images.
Mary Lucking was commissioned by the Tucson/Pima Arts Council in 2003 to create artwork for three Roundabouts in the Dunbar/Springs Neighborhood. This is the second of the three.
Mary has used her art to tell the story of the neighborhood. Mary also filled the center with desert plants. Here are the results:
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North Side |
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| South Side |
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| West Side |
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| East Side. |
Some of the panels are starting to show the effects of age and weathering.
Click on any photo for a slideshow of larger and sharper images.
Monday, July 10, 2017
Maybe a mural, part 74
Roundabout at N. 11th Ave. & W. 1st St. What is a Roundabout you might ask. It's a circle of concrete curbing placed in the middle of an intersection. If you work for Tucson's Dept. of Transportation it's a Traffic Circle. To the rest of us it's a Roundabout and a pain in the posterior.
Mary Lucking was commissioned by the Tucson/Pima Arts Council in 2003 to create artwork for three Roundabouts in the Dunbar/Springs Neighborhood. I suspect the motive was to give drivers something to look at while they figured out how to make a left turn.
Mary has used her art to tell the story of the neighborhood. This is her story of the old Court Street Cemetery. The cemetery closed in 1908 but only about half the bodies were moved. The remaining 4,000+ still lie beneath the streets and homes of the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood. May they rest in peace.
Some of the panels are starting to show the effects of old age and weathering.
Click on any photo for a slide show of larger and sharper images.
Here's an article you might like: Neighborhood atop cemetery
Mary Lucking was commissioned by the Tucson/Pima Arts Council in 2003 to create artwork for three Roundabouts in the Dunbar/Springs Neighborhood. I suspect the motive was to give drivers something to look at while they figured out how to make a left turn.
Mary has used her art to tell the story of the neighborhood. This is her story of the old Court Street Cemetery. The cemetery closed in 1908 but only about half the bodies were moved. The remaining 4,000+ still lie beneath the streets and homes of the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood. May they rest in peace.
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| Hallowed Ground |
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| East Side |
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| North Side |
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| West Side |
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| South Side |
Click on any photo for a slide show of larger and sharper images.
Here's an article you might like: Neighborhood atop cemetery
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