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Artifact Count

  • Currently Hidden: 0 items
  • Reported Missing/Not Registered: 14 items
  • Found and Registered: 106 items
  • Total Artifact Count: 120 items

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Hidden on 9/8/07 Status: Reported Missing/ Not Registered



Clue:
To find this artifact, go to the bus stop at the center of the lot that was once a home to cavaliers. Search the shelter carefully for this hidden piece.

Additional information on this piece:

This piece is intended to be an exploration of the role of the individual in society. I think about the consequences of my actions on our community as an individual when I act out of my own selfish interests. In places the "i" creates chaos and other in places the overlap of forms creates interesting, and perhaps even beautiful, patterns.

Friday, September 7, 2007

Hidden on 9/7/07 Status: Reported Missing/ Not Registered



Clue:
To find this artifact, ride the South Church Street bus.
Stop at the place where you can go for a book.
Go to the sign.
Now start to look.

Additional information on this piece:

I drew this piece while I was listening to Dan Maultsby's retirement convocation at Wofford. I was thinking about the vessels he filled in 27 years as Dean of the College.

I consider myself to be one.

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Hidden on 9/6/07 Status: FOUND!




Clue:
To find this artifact, you might as well just stand in a fountain.
It is under the biggest flag just South of Broad.

Additional information on this piece:
This piece emerged as I was thinking about the legacies people leave for us to follow.
Sometimes I think there are trails that lead us to the mountains we must climb. I am grateful for people who have walked those trails and shown them to me.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Where are you?

Hidden on 9/5/07 Status: Reported Missing/ Not Registered


Clue:
To find this artifact, seek shelter at the bus stop nearest to the cornerstone of swimming on the Southside. Don't forget to look up.

Additional information on this piece:
As I was painting this image, I was thinking about the colors and objects I associate with swimming during the summer. It was a fun watercolor to paint with the merging colorful shapes and waves.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Hidden on 9/04/07 Status: FOUND!


Clue:
To find this artifact, ride the trail by the Little River. Park your bike and have a cup of coffee. Don't stop your ride before you pass at the concrete wall beyond their dumpster. This artifact is hanging out in the shade.

Additional information on this piece:
As I was painting this image, I was watching the heat radiating off of the 100 degree pavement. The heat played with the shapes of the trees. I intensified the effect as I painted with only horizontal waves. I think my colors went to cooler blues and greens for a little relief.

Monday, September 3, 2007

Hidden on 9/3/07 Status: Reported Missing.

Clue: Is this statue reading? Or is he looking at this hidden art?

To find this artifact, look over his shoulder to see what is in the news.
Additional information on this piece:
As I was drawing this piece, I was thinking about the different systems in the city and how they overlap. I was also thinking about places where our systems seem to avoid overlapping and why that might be.

Conceptualize!

What is this project?

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.

How can I participate?


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!