Clue:In collaboration with Partners for Active Living, SPARTA Bus, and the City of Spartanburg, visual artist and Spartanburg resident Kris Neely will move through out the city of Spartanburg for six months. The project is intended to call the community's attention to bus shelters, bike racks, and city trails.
Step 1: Kris Neely will move through Spartanburg in ways that are not his typical ways of experiencing this place. He will begin to create studies and sketches that will be used for the creation of one larger piece of art.
Step 2: Kris will place these studies throughout the city in places that he noticed during his travels. Clues will be placed on this blog along with photographic images of the artifacts.
Step 3: Participants are invited to follow the clues to find these small pieces of art. Finders keepers. We invite you to leave a comment on this site letting us know the work has been found and taken. You might even want to post a picture of yourself in the location. Please see Step 5 for more details about a what we hope you will do with this art.
Step 4: Citizens are encouraged to send in postcard reflections about the way they move through Spartanburg. Poems, art work, and collages are just some of the creative ways you can reflect. (Children are encouraged to participate.) Please be aware that by submitting a card you are agreeing for the card to be exhibited in a culminating show and on this site. No postcards will be returned and decisions about whether reflections will be posted are left to the sole discretion of the Artist-in-Transit.
Step 5: Participate in the culminating art show (TBA). Participants who find the artifacts are encouraged to bring them to the culminating show for display. These pieces will be yours to keep after the event. Kris will share the larger work that resulted from the studies of movement and systems in the City of Spartanburg. Postcard reflections will be on display. Information about active living and public art initiatives in Spartanburg will be available at this event.
Step 6: Consider making a personal adjustment in the way you move each day through Spartanburg!
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In his studio, Neely experiments with new media and found objects to create two-dimensional and three-dimensional art.
For more information about the artist, please visit: www.kristoferneely.com
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Grey upon grey
at the break of day,
I'll stop here to take a rest...
Yet under my seat
I find a treat,
And by it my life is blessed.
Color breaking out of the dark;
Into a life- a small spark,
And the Light ends the dark of the
void
Just as in this sad place,
We look only to His grace,
And then hope fills our hearts like
a flood
Shortly past the break of day
I paused in this place to pray.
(Well, passers-by probably thought so!)
I was kneeling there to seek
Beneath six seats of concrete
The artifact "Darkness to Light."
By the reflection pool tower
At quite an early hour
Darkness was turning to dawn.
Lo' the art "Darkness to Light"
Never appeared in my sight
Disappointment became my demeanor.
Slowly sights astounding
And beauty abounding
To my vision began appearing.
Lovely water lilies floating
Huge goldfish boating
The pool reflecting the tower and me.
Now my eyes see more clearly
My heart loves more dearly
And I'll follow Him more nearly, Day by Day
The poets were out and about on this rainy day! Wow!
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