"The Orange step"

I was driving down to the studio a few days ago and notice that they were hanging what seemed like giant prints along the walk way in Forsyth park. Having only to work a night shift at the studio today I decided to take a look and find out what was going one.

I was surprised not to find giant digital prints but actual 20 x10 foot paintings (total 128 in all) decorating all the paths of Forsyth Park. It was amazing. The only artwork that I have ever scene out side of galleries have been murals and such, but these works are beautiful. They have a Pollock mets cubism feel to them. The strokes of the drip painting along side the large vivid collaboration of color merging together to make such beautiful work. With that, but having them set in an open air setting made the experience even more so amazing. I got the chance to walk up to each and every painting and got to examine them which I never allowed to do in a museum setting with out fear of setting off alarms. You could see the how ever stroke that makes the paintings has it's own energy and life to it.

The artist's name is Kiril Jeliazkov and was a M.F.A graduate of SCAD I believe.

More about the project can be found on the ConnectSavannah article.

One thing that I did find interesting about installing the work in the park is that people started to walk in the park as if it were a gallery. All my years of living in this town I had always seen people walk through the park, and not really keep on the pathway alot, I know I didn't. So I found it hillarious watching people walking along the paths almost afraid to even break way from the sidewalks and walk up to the paintings themselves. Of course, I could see these people are the people that just tend to walk through a museum and not really stop and observe what is infront of them.

Not me. It took me and Rob about two hours to look at ever piece of work that was displayed. I was angery at myself for not double checking my digital camera and seeing if it had it's memory card so I only took a few photos with it's internal memory. Those can be found on my flickr account.