As the Crow Flies

I just got home from working at the Super Bowl 

and a late pizza party with my co-workers,

 so I'll return to another of the art installations at TURF.

Sanctuary (Apocalyptic Considerations),

by Jamie Pawlus,  was designed around the sort 
of strategies the artist might undertake 

were he aware of exactly when the

world might end. The display took 

a humorous turn in deciphering

the sort of life he might like to live,

knowing the expected date of his demise.

I need to make my way toward my own sanctuary.

We began gathering at three this afternoon

for a job of work we would perform at about

eight o'clock. With all of our preparation, the job went

smoothly and seemed to be over more quickly 

than expected. Everyone seemed happy with

the show, so the effort was worth it.

And the New York Giants defeated the 

evil New England Patriots, 21-17.

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On Our TURF

Visitors to TURF view one of the art installations presented by IDADA
in conjunction with activities related to the 2012 NFL Super Bowl.
This exhibit is Culture Is A Gun, presented byArtur Silva. 

The Indianapolis Downtown Artists and Dealers Association, 

IDADA, is a non-profit organization made up of studio artists,

art galleries and art related businesses located within

a twenty-block square area of downtown Indianapolis.

The organization is intended to develop and promote the pool 

of world-class artists who reside and work in Central Indiana.

Videos showing a waterfall make up the installation by
Greg Hull. Titled  Mediated Terrain, the artist intends
to inform the viewer about our relationship and perceptions
of our environment.

To that end, IDADA is presenting TURF in the weeks

leading up to the Super Bowl, an exhibition of installation, video

and experimental artwork by twenty-three artists, most of whom

reside in Indianapolis and the surrounding counties. 

Arthur Liou's Insatiable is a video presentation made up of
footage filmed at an open night market. Composited into micro and
macro images, the resulting image takes the form of  a massive creature,
moving and undulating through space.

The TURF Art Pavilion is located in Old City Hall. 

A beautiful example of Neo-Classical architecture, the building

is, in its way, as much a part of the exhibition as the art

it is housing until the Super Bowl; visitors gaze at the beautiful

stained glass dome in the rotunda and admire the wonderful

examples of scagliola that cover most of the pillars

in the building's lobby (When you visit, tap the pillars to see

which ones are marble, wood or metal).

Shown here is a segment of Better or Worse? by C. Thomas Lewis.
The artist uses the optometrists' standard question to explore
the nature of visual perception.

All of the exhibits represent the individual viewpoints 

of the artists, all of them interesting and well-done.

Visitors' reactions have been positive with 

many people visiting more than once.

The solar-powered cockroach shown above is a detail
from Waiting for the Electrician (or Someone Like Him)
by Lori Miles.

Fanfare for Mayor Charles Bookwalter, is artist
Kipp Normand's tribute to the man who was the driving
force behind the development and construction of
the Old City Hall