Laurencio Carlos Ruiz, visiting artist/puppeteer at Elsewhere Artists Collaborative, unleashed these paper balloons on the lawn at Center City Park in front of the Davie Street Cultural Arts Center. If you look above the rightmost balloon, you can see the roof of the Cultural Arts Center peeking out. Part of July's First Friday activities, the balloons were located on the very spot where many of the Fun Fourth festivities will take place over the next three days. One person commented that they looked like something out of a Roald Dahl novel. A Kindergarten teacher said they reminded her of colored pencils. At any rate, children and adults alike enjoyed running between the balloons, peeking inside them, letting their imaginations run wild around them, and having their photo taken with the festive display. Let this be another example of why one should never sit home alone on First Friday with so much happening in downtown Greensboro.
Same goes for Fun Fourth, this community celebration that has been taking place in Greensboro since 1975, is another opportunity to get out and enjoy downtown. The event schedule can be found at the previous link here.
This is so beautiful and promising, you have to post some more pictures of this event.
Posted by: VP | Saturday, July 02, 2011 at 06:05 AM
You really captured that from a great angle! These sculptures out of tissue paper were very interesting and I am glad that Elsewhere invites artists like Laurencio Ruiz to come to the city and exhibit their art work!
Posted by: Katja Brown | Saturday, July 02, 2011 at 07:06 AM
I agree Katja! We are so lucky to have the great opportunities made available by Elsewhere. VP, I don't know if the balloons will be up again.
Lighting was very challenging at this event. The balloons were in a giant patch of shade surrounded by bright sun, so I tried to compensate with an interesting composition. Thank you for noticing Katja.
Posted by: Janis | Saturday, July 02, 2011 at 09:08 AM
They are definitely brightly colored. I get the colored pencil image.
Posted by: barb farr | Saturday, July 02, 2011 at 04:42 PM
They're awesome! I can see that the adults like them as well... I know my nephew and nieces would be fascinated by them. Good stuff GDP!
Happy 4th of July!
:) Thanks for the heads up.
Posted by: Ken | Saturday, July 02, 2011 at 11:20 PM
I think of color pencils, my students always want to use my special pencil sharpener.
Posted by: ann nz | Sunday, July 03, 2011 at 01:45 AM