So, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:  public art installations are just one of those things– you either love them or you loath them.  I happen to always be curious about them and am in no hurry to label my interest in them to fall into either of those two ‘L’ categories.

Well, the latest such public art installation is one that I found yesterday right inside my office building.  It is part of a larger project called Art X at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit that features works by 17 recipients of the 2009 Kresge Visual Artist Fellows Award.  There’s a link right here to the article that appeared in the campus newspaper yesterday.

So, what you see here are images of this piece of art that is installed in the atrium of my building.  I can’t quite tell what exactly it is, and perhaps that is the very idea!  It could be representative of a conglomeration of ideas:  perhaps everything from animal body parts to the building materials used in the construction of houses.  It questions notions of conventional beauty, and makes you wonder about what greater idea the artist must have sought to convey.

This is going to be here for the rest of the week, it seems, and so I shall ponder its meaning for a few more days.  It is a show, for sure!

Post Script:  Information on the artist and the piece is as follows:

Push Let
Rose Rivard, BFA Sculpture and Printmaking
Mixed media
Push Let focuses on the varying ways the idea of shelter can manifest itself. The use of human made and natural forms illustrates a comparison between the bodily need for physical protection, and the mental construction of feeling sheltered or nurtured. The combination of these two realms of need suggests that they are not separate, but dependent on one another.