This tongue-in-cheek project on a visit to Chicago evolves into a bold dream sequence. Seen from the 37th floor where Lake Michigan meets the river, this video poem is based upon the poetry of Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago” and the works of Jeanne-Claude Christo. It is a tour de force panning the city and within the Art Institute of Chicago. See these large flowers paintings in a new light. (4 minutes)
When I lived in Denver there was a news story about an artist who stole into the Denver Art Museum and replaced the paintings there with his own. That gave me the idea for this piece and several other “museum” pieces.
I took photographs within the Art Institute of Chicago and kept the frames and shadows of the paintings and but replaced the paintings with my own. Amazing what you can do with Photoshop. They looked good there. It was only a short step to placing them on buildings and cranes. The book, Re-contexted, shows how changing the setting or context is one part of the creative adventure.