Be a Bird
Be a bird, who, halting in her flight on a limb too slight, feels it give way beneath her, yet sings, sings knowing she has wings. -Victor Hugo
Miniature Life
We were exploring the Lincoln Park Zoo just the other day and noticed some miniature plastic dinosaurs in the conservatory that reminded us of Banksy’s piece in the West Loop. It’s surprising to all of a sudden come across plastic toys in a conservatory, but also just as interesting when used in street art. They’re just small details, but in art, it’s the small details that make a piece that much more spectacular. The use of small components shows consideration of the whole, careful thought, and attention to detail.
I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room. – Ray Bradbury
Imitation
Another comparison for you: The Museum of Contemporary Art and the Lincoln Park Zoo, inanimate and alive, people and animals, indoor and outdoor. We hope you enjoy viewing art this way, because we surely do!
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. -Eckhart Tolle
Creature Comparisons
An artist, or a piece of art, is expected to be compared to something else in the same field, but why not compare art to living things? From faces on a West Loop mural to monkeys lined up at the Lincoln Park Zoo and a street art mural in Wicker Park to zebra-like fashion, we like to take art out of its original world and into our everyday lives.
Why is it that our ideas of the animal–perhaps more than any other set of ideas–are the ones which enable us to frame and express ideas about human identity? -Steve Baker
From Playgrounds to Skylines
As you may have noticed, we are ALL about comparisons. We believe it makes you see certain objects in a new light and makes you take away something totally different. A jungle gym on a playground in Longview, TX and a sculpture at the Lincoln Park Zoo- two geometric structures with loads of repetition pair beautifully together. The repetition of similar shapes is one of the things that drew us to this comparison, but oh, how the contrast of the environments they live in can lend SO much more to the image!
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. -Vincent Van Gogh
