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What’s over six stories tall, and made from recycled bicycles? The newest and most talked-about piece of public art in Santa Rosa.
Seen up close, the soaring obelisk is also a kaliedoscope of color, with each of the bicylce parts still painted in its original hue.
This is hardly the first time that Greive has employed bicyle parts--especially their wheels--as a raw material for his artwork. [You can see other examples here, including some from Burning Man.] He explains he has multiple reasons for doing that.
The phot below shows the obelisk under consruction, and offers a peek of the peak that will be hard to see again, now that the tower has been installed.
The phot below shows the obelisk under consruction, and offers a peek of the peak that will be hard to see again, now that the tower has been installed.
Cyclisk (c) 2010 Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector, Photo (c) 2010 Ilana Spector.
Spector and Greive take particualr pride in having made a notable addition to the city's cultural landscape, something to add distinction to Santa Rosa's core.
