Features
Jul 10, 2013 at 4:00 am
How Buster Simpson Turned His Righteous Anger About Development, the Environment, and Seattle's Economic Disparity into Art
He’s naked
and flinging chunks of limestone at the World Trade Center, each chunk blasted with the word “PURGE.”
valerie silver/courtesy of the artist
Comments
Please wait...
Comments are closed.
Commenting on this item is available only to members of the site. You can sign in here or create an account here.
is a proud member of the
media network
media network
All contents © Index Newspapers LLC
800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
The pro-nesting around that first tree set the ground work, sort a speak, for the saving of the second tree.
Google map shows the second tree is still at Post Alley and Stewart.
I hope it still gets it tree vitamins and sprouts live on some were else.
Simpson has always inspired me to plant the right thing in the wrong place. (It is really hard to get ride of potato plants once they establish;) thank you Buster Simpson!
Art in Woodstock?
Woodstock was art.
Same with Seattle.
Is it somehow relevant to what you are saying?
Is YOUR age relevant as well? Should you mention it in each thing you write?
Its kind of like how some journalists always mention what a woman is wearing, but not a man. Somehow its important to you to keep telling us how OLD Buster is, but not how old all the other artists you write about are?
I would, however, like to point out a mistake from this article. Mr. Simpson is not the "lead artist" on the seawall project. The piece of public art he has been commissioned to make is being funded through the seawall project. And, it certainly won't be his biggest project to date. It won't be connected to the seawall itself, either, but rather out on a new habitat "beach" that will be visible from the waterfront. I'm pretty sure he will try to work with natural processes, too. That said, whatever he makes will most likely be amazing. Thanks.
I'm looking at some of the questions Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi asked other creative people in his book, Flow. Whether conscious of it or not, I felt I have a bit better grasp on what Creativity really means.