Public Eye

The arts consortium NewTown Pasadena -- maybe it's just NewTown now -- always comes up with the best outdoor performance/situational installation opportunities for artists, and last weekend's "On the Trail Of ..." in Hahamongna just above Devil's Gate Dam was no exception.

We started down the trail from the soccer field after being handed a map by Newtown majordomo Richard Amromin and his co-conspirators, and what do we run into first but ... these creatures. Doing God knows what. Kinda reminded me of the Mud People from earlier happenings in the south Arroyo Seco. We gave them a little space while walking by. It turns out they were Joseph Ravens and Taisha Paggett "in search of a hole never dug" and "seeking a perfect place for a hole."

Then pictured below are one of Thadeus Frazier-Reed and Cassia Streb's "Hornbill" installations, electronic papier-mache birds placed throughout the park; Stan Hunter's "Floating Bowl Perspective" and Karen Bonfigli and Andreas Hessing's Stomata/Stigmata, in which I pulled the plug on the earthenware bowl hanging in the tree and witnessed the shower of a gallon of water spilling down almost on me.

Andreas was in this blog last year with those same bowls planted in the ground out at the Arboretum.