After weeks of fog and solid cloud cover here in Portland we finally enjoyed a few (mostly) sunny days last weekend. It is amazing how a blue sky above takes a weight off my shoulders and the blinders off my eyes. Everything is brighter and so much more seems possible. Thinking about this I remembered a couple of photos I took at the Albuquerque airport last fall…
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That’s the ceiling in a restaurant we stopped to eat at. I guess they are trying to make their customers feel they don’t have to rush outside to enjoy the New Mexico sky?
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It was shortly after arriving home from that trip that I saw an ad for Sky Factory in a magazine, they produce these kind of installations. While their about us blurb is a bit canned (“Our business is to provide you with the highest quality Illusions of Nature™ and to do so affordably”), and the artists statement a bit grand, the idea has my mind working on the possibilities. Just look at all the sky images available (jungle canopy! tropical trees, blossoms and palms!)…or what if you could submit your own images? I would like an image of Clifford's leaves and a summer blue sky…
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Or maybe Clifford and one of the neighbor's conifers?
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Or what about the Albizia julibrissin 'Summer Chocolate'…
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What if there didn’t have to be those silly dividing panels and it was a thin sheet which could be applied like wallpaper on your ceiling? Oh and what if the sun would rise, shine and set all right there on your ceiling? What if…
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All material © 2009-2013 by Loree Bohl for danger garden. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited and just plain rude.
That’s the ceiling in a restaurant we stopped to eat at. I guess they are trying to make their customers feel they don’t have to rush outside to enjoy the New Mexico sky?
It was shortly after arriving home from that trip that I saw an ad for Sky Factory in a magazine, they produce these kind of installations. While their about us blurb is a bit canned (“Our business is to provide you with the highest quality Illusions of Nature™ and to do so affordably”), and the artists statement a bit grand, the idea has my mind working on the possibilities. Just look at all the sky images available (jungle canopy! tropical trees, blossoms and palms!)…or what if you could submit your own images? I would like an image of Clifford's leaves and a summer blue sky…
Or maybe Clifford and one of the neighbor's conifers?
Or what about the Albizia julibrissin 'Summer Chocolate'…
What if there didn’t have to be those silly dividing panels and it was a thin sheet which could be applied like wallpaper on your ceiling? Oh and what if the sun would rise, shine and set all right there on your ceiling? What if…
All material © 2009-2013 by Loree Bohl for danger garden. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited and just plain rude.