Mural in South San Jose
Library Clouds
Southside Community Center Mural
El Monstro – Mural
I really enjoy this mural, El Monsrto, the monster! It is photo realistic and playful and I can remember my kids pretending and playing when I see it. I enjoy this for what I think and for how I feel when I appreciate it.
Technically impressive is that this was done with spray paint. The artist painted this as part of the Pow! Wow! San Jose 2019 event when numerous artists put up public art works in one week in collaboration with property owners and sponsors. The three years we have had this event have brought a lot of art to our city.
Above is a close up of the painting. Like analog-pixels of the art, up close you can see individual paints that went into the photo realistic effect that you get from stepping back. Wonderful!
Sky from Martial Cottle Park
It is wonderful that within a city there are still spaces big enough to see this sky.
Succulent in south San Jose
Skate Park and Murals
Butterflies
Camaraderie – Public Art
This sculpture, Camaraderie, is striking in its shape and presentation. The artists collected the words that make up large portions of its surface from the words veterans used, in person or as recorded in Library of Congress documents, when telling stories of friendship and solidarity.
Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch
Now part of the Santa Clara County Parks, this 20 acre San Jose, California ranch was once part of the nearly 10,000 acre Rancho Santa Teresa. It was run by Bernal and his descendants continuously from 1834, when this was still Mexico, until 1980.
It was purchased by IBM and then traded as part of a deal so that IBM could build a research lab up in the Santa Teresa hills of San Jose that had belonged to the Santa Clara County Parks.
