collinwood mural part two

Last year, Graffiti Heart sponsored the painting of a large wall mural at 16700 Euclid Avenue [see and click]. Last weekend, they did the other half. Collinwood was noted for the railroad yard at Saranac. Here they painted the former coal tipple [click]. The high school is nicknamed the Railroaders.

A community for all

 

2021 Miscellany #8

   

Cassius is a pacifist, he does not like conflict. I made him inspect this new replica cannon, the original one is in Grays' Armory. The original was captured from the secessionists early in the war, and brought to Camp Cleveland. In between time, it resided at Public Square. This new armament is at where Camp Cleveland had been, now it is an ornament at the newly completed Metropark trail.

fire hose water spigots University of Akron  

Did not know, what this is called. Tried reverse image on a search engine, and the answer was "fictional character". Pictures of robot toys, and such appeared.

 

Two Cleveland suburbs are having Dinosaur shows. One at the fairgrounds in Berea, and these fotos are from a drive through one behind the old JC Penney's in Parma.

pursuing piano playing

 

 Karma at Archwood UCC plays her first painted piano.

 

Karma is too young to remember when Rowlf played piano for Jimmy Dean. Piano Cleveland has placed 15 pianos to be seen by the public. #GrandPianoPursuit

Cassius paws eighty-eight keys on Waterloo, Collinwood.

Summer is here, school's out and it is time to play.  Karma is, on stage at Wade Oval, playing what must have been a fine piano at one time

Cassius

Karma at the Music Settlement by CWRU

Cassius

Karma at Bop Stop on Detroit, tries her sixth piano.

John came here

If my memory serves me right, Euclid Beach had a big log cabin and dance floor. John Kennedy had been there, and there was a sign there saying so. This may have been the occasion. Celebrezze was mayor of Cleveland, for five two year terms. He became secretary of Health, Education & Welfare for Kennedy, and Johnson. Notice the union bug on the bottom? For a long time it seemed that it was unusual to see any locally printed paper object of many copies without it. In 1958, he lost the primary for governor to the eventual winner Michael DiSalle. DiSalle was mayor of Toledo in the late forties. Both DiSalle and Celebrezze had parents born in Italy, and both graduated from Jesuit colleges. Yes, in those days Democrats could become governor of Ohio.

DiSalle was the first to be elected to a four year term. Jim Rhodes ran against the incumbent multi-term Democrat from Cleveland, Frank Lausche in 1954. Rhodes lost that first time. In 1962, he ran against DiSalle. There were other issues, but one that cost DiSalle was abolition of the death penalty: "I found that the men in death row had one thing in common: they were penniless". This was a little before my time, but Jim Rhodes ran on "home grown tomatoes" (have not found this in print, and have not yet looked).

Clark Field

One of the new park projects of Cleveland Metroparks is the clean up of  Clark Field. Next to where the Clark Pershing bridge began, there was abandoned industrial land. On the field below there was many tons of ground asphalt. Some of the asphalt are the under structure of grassed mounds. Winding bicycle paths have been built, and wildflowers planted. A new small ecosystem has been built to slow, and clean rain water, which will reach the lake.

The high entrance allows for viewing of the train tracks, steel mill, police impound lot, other businesses, and a long distance, same elevation view of St. Theodosius.

train car visible from West 3rd, a mural by Abstract Dissent

St. Theodosius is a Cleveland landmark.

Cassius, and added humour notice

 

not exactly brutalism

 

University of Akron. South Schrank Hall.

This is not the ground floor. Next to the football fields, there are flights of steps leading to these buildings. What you see is not structural, it is an attached facade. What i see is not brutalism, but it is partly brutalistic. It reminds me of pre-Columbian Mejico, cubism, and Star Trek's Borg. What i read, is that military [Ohio National Guard] classes meet here—how fitting.

library mosaic

Vernon Odom Akron Library Branch

This reminds me of Mount Rushmore: ML King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm Little (Malcolm X). The middle two were escaped slaves, and became leaders of the XIXth century abolition movement. The outer two were leaders of the Civil Rights movement a century later.

Did not find material on this mural (i think it may have replaced a similar painting of the three men).* There is a small block on the bottom, with signatures, but it is no longer legible. I see four other arms spreading out, and two robes. This must be allegorical, and i hazard to guess.

upper right corner: notice the setting of tessera  for the mosaic, and a robin nest

attractive landscaping and a piece of modern sculpture

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*postscriptum: Current Odom Boulevard Branch Library - former Wooster Branch - with the a re-imagined version of the original Woodrow Nash mural, reworked by the artist in 1999 to include Sojourner Truth.

Clayton Bailey's World of Wonders

 

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Landmark Building, at 156 S Main St. Akron, OH 44308

originally Akron Savings and Loan 

Open and free: Thursday, Friday, Saturday for several more weeks

As you see, Bailey put together objects to form anthropomorphic robots out of appliances, tools, and other items. Most of these robots are humourous, and fun. This one has a nameplate, "Commander". These are akin to the science fiction movie and television robots.

wrench from Kenosha Wisconsin

The one on the right is a double decker totem pole made from institutional kitchen equipment. It may have have served coffee.

Besides the robots, and faux science machines, he made ceramics that continued the scientific and side show themes. Bailey became an art professor in Northern California. There were several artists in the area that offered something counter to abstract expressionism. Some was folk art, some was crafting found art. Funk art, and Nut art were names applied. This was figurative art, not the formlessness of the New York modernists. They shaped, and drew instead of splattering.

Clayton Bailey (*1939, 2020†) had a sense of humour. There are signs referencing the impresario, museum trickster P.T. Barnum. Sasquatch sightings were common in Northern California, Bailey ran with it. Barnum entertained the gullible. Part of the modern art con job is the fanciful description written on the presentation card.

fotos 6, 7, 8, and 9 by John Z by his telephone

good day to go to parks

semi-elusive glossy ibis at Lorain Impoundment

Killdeers lay eggs on the ground, no nest.

Killdeers feign injury to lead you away.

guessing, eastern phoebe

Karma resting in shade, wearing beads given to her by a kid in a parade.

1957 Firedome Desoto with a V-10 from a 1996 truck

It drives on a stick, but originally on push button automatic.

fish eats kid

Lindbergh was a brave pilot, but not a very secret supporter of Nazi Germany. An American fascist is a traitor to the principles this country was founded upon.

That awful number, which i mockingly call evil, marks a Lake Shore Electric Railway car.

roses in Lorain's Lakeview Park