Atlanta's super-cool public art project The Living Walls includes an art refabbed house this year. Various artists were given permission by a Living Walls' board member to transform his soon to be demolished home into a fun house. The result is a colorful, knitted, craggy interior. Where dusty floors might have once caught the attention of a resident, natural undulations of sand, leaf and soil are purposefully laid out on the floor and offset with perpendicular undulations of purple balloons. Even cooler are an adult sized mobile carousal and trees intentionally coming up through the floors, straight through misplaced doors!
In Atlanta, where the foreclosures are abundant, and where the aesthetic stratification still appears to correlate with economics and race, the Art House left me with an impression of the positive possibilities housed within a derelict space or building. I ponder-how might we continue to transform such spaces into inspiring places for communities to play, learn & connect?
Much appreciation to Plastic Aztecs, Knitteratti, Patricia Lacrete, Nikita Gale & Mon Ellis. I love it when the creative women represent!
