Public Eye

It looks nasty (which just proves that we see what we want to see).

The Public Eye readership needs an upgrade.

I've been watching those two blobs since they landed by crane. They look like body parts - maybe gallbladders?

Find out the artist's name and call him to say that it probably needs drainage holes. Sometimes water falls out of the sky in Pasadena, and it looks like there are openings at the top of this ugly thing. If no drainage holes at the bottom, it could become a health hazard as well as an eyesore.

Find out who the maker is and tell him it probably needs drainage holes. Sometimes water falls out of the sky in Pasadena, and this ugly thing looks like it has openings in the top. If there are no drainage holes, it could become a health hazard as well as being an eyesore.

Where is the 'hate speech' today Larry??

This is not 'art' this is racism.

I would sure like to hear from the artist. What was he/she trying to accomplish with this piece?

How do the members of the Arts Commission feel about the finished product? Is this piece what they expected and approved?

What about the activists from the Arts Council - how are they responding?

Simply appalling. Guess the multitude of us philistines are incapable of recognizing great art when we see it.

Now they've been buffed up, they look rather nice. I just wish someone would explain to us what they're supposed to represent?

This artist was selected by an art consultant. I was visited and rejected by "said " art consultant (who at that time was looking for something that would have a historical slant to it).

Dearest Larry,
Being that your representing the public eye, it might have been nice if you had put off posting this a day or two. That would have given you the time to find out the name of the artist and perhapos a web site as well.

Just to correct a few details that Larry Wilson said regarding the “Separated United Forms” sculpture. The artist, David Schafer, is standing with the blue shirt on and is next to the John Griswald, the Conservator from the Norton Simon Museum. Both David and John are directing and overseeing the re-waxing of the cast bronze sculptures by the person mentioned with the blowtorch. Karl, who is from the Walla Walla foundry, is applying the wax, which is then slightly buffed out.
The surface has been patinated a dark brown, there is no paint whatsoever on the sculptures. The sculptures evoke Henry Moore as Larry said, because the artist sampled and remixed a small Henry Moore sculpture from the Norton Simon collection using a hand held 3D imaging scanner which was provided by Art Center College of Design.
The formal press release will be issued at the end of next week, or as soon as the landscaping is completed, and the in-ground lights adjusted. The project was fully approved by the Pasadena Art Commission and has been in the works for over three years. This project was funded by, Pacific Medical Buildings. The plaques for the sculptures are now in place, so there is information at the site now.

Anything is better than nothing. So - the more art the better - even if its something that dropped out of the sky from outer space.

Love Henry Moore, but not these sculptures. Every time I drive by I think, "Tumors?" A hospital entry is the last place we should be placing amorphous, unidentifiable blobs; patients already feel confused by and afraid of maladies they don't understand. Though we know it's well-intentioned, this artwork sends the wrong message because it's in the wrong context.

I am speechless regarding what passes for public art these days in our City. Dinosaur Lungs? T-Rex T__ds? Dinosaur Addenda? We are in Pasadena, afterall, so we must be nice about it.

Referencing today's article in the Star News, it is cruel and unusual punishment for those of us that must daily traverse California Blvd. to be subjected to these ghastly, 'reorganized body' parts. One wonders how $300,000 may have benefitted Pasadena otherwise...

It has absolutely nothing to do with projection. They are just crappy sculptures. Much nicer to have a big beautiful goddess fountain! I am ashamed that this is in our city