A day spent mostly in the studio space catching up with admin stuff (and yes, social media as well), but also a little walk around the town to stretch the legs.
The town has various public art works dotted around in the form of large murals, usable and friendly community integrated sculptures and interesting standalone sculptures that are both contemporary and traditional. The most interesting one is located beside the river and is a geodesic dome that is made of hands. This piece of work is one of those work that you stand looking at for ages because it makes you wonder in great detail about the complete process from start to finish for making such a work. From I could see, the hands were all different and how do you get them to all play nicely together and fit? I would imagine something like this would need to have used a template dome to lay the items on and assemble them. But then how and when is the welding flame used to weld the pieces together and preserve that perfect shape? The shadows inside the piece were also like another sculpture inside the sculpture. A lovely piece of work indeed.
There is also an interesting piece of sculpture beside the main bride over the river. It is great that such playful artistic vision has been brought forth and realized. I would image there may have been an open call and the selectors chose the most fun work! It is clever how it has been permanently installed. By looking at such public works, we can learn from them and even incorporate techniques and strategies into our own works.
The other works are wall murals, again they add interesting vistas to the urban landscape. I also really liked the urban seating area that is very informal and uses mosaic. Finally, there was a piece that is very contemporary and of a minimal nature. It is by an artist named Abellán Juliá, who was actually born in the town of Cieza which is just up the road from Blanca. His piece is very interesting and has an extra.added dimension in that it lights up at night.
