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ChineseMetro art in Van Nuys
[tags]los angeles, san fernando valley, van nuys, here in van nuys[/tags]
One man’s trash is another man’s art.
Credit: Andrew Hurvitz, Here in Van Nuys
Here in Van Nuys uberblogger Andrew Hurvitz took a picture of a new art installation at a Van Nuys bus stop, somewhere on Sepulveda Boulevard.
Hurvitz has the straight dope on the project. Glendale artist Basura Garbageyan and assistants from a nearby high school created this untitled project, shopping carts and food packaging on concrete and grass.
Quoting from the Here in Van Nuys article:
Ms. Garbagean has taken a totemic symbol of consumerism, the shopping cart, and arranged a textural symphony of steel at this bus stop on Sepulveda.
“When people are waiting for the bus, they often bring their shopping baskets from Costco and then when the bus comes, they just leave the baskets behind and get on the bus. So that’s where the idea came from,” said Ms. Garbageyan.
In-kind suport was provided by Costco. The site can be see from Metro lines 234 and 734.
[Note: MetroRiderLA has been informed that the art display is satire. The site apologizes for this error and will not assume everything is true if it's on the internet.]
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Good to see others embracing the only true form of urban art.
Please see my commentary on this exact subject from spring 2006.