School Bulletin Board
Mural Bus
This artfully painted bus was seen parked in south San Jose. While not confirmed, this sure looks like the work of San Jose artist Patrick Hofmeister (www.hofmeisterart.com) who painted a downtown parking garage in San Jose.
Painted Rock
Block Building
Repetition and patterns punctuated by moments of organized-to-be-free and apparently-random space seems to be attractive. Throw in some shadows as garnish.
Some Sky
View from Mt. Umunhum
Looking north-east from Mt. Umunhum. San Jose directly ahead with the San Francisco Bay off to the left.
East Williams Street Murals
Sunflowers
The sunflower stocks have since dried and are now removed from the garden bed, breaking down in the mulch pile. The seeds have all gone to feed the local squirrel. That was not originally the plan, though it worked out just fine that way. Looking back over these photos from June before the seeds developed.
Sanctuary Sculpture
“Sanctuary” is a 65 foot tall sculpture by artist Bruce Beasley (http://brucebeasley.com/) located at the entrance of the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose. It is huge. You get to walk under it by a path and besides looking for different ways that the giant rings play as I walked through I kept getting this ideas of motion imposed on my mind with flashes of the time/space traveling machine from the movie “Contact.”
Not captured in these photos which look east towards the street entrance to the hospital are the buildings that form a “U” around the sculpture and its park like settings around the north, west, and south sides of the art. These are hospital rooms that look out onto this beautiful scene called “Sanctuary.”
New Mural on New Construction
Looking forward to walking up close when this area is opened. What is it about these colors and patterns that makes them so attractive?