Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Read Between the Signs and Signs and Flowers in Meadville

For the past 7 summers we've watched the growing highway art along 322 as you drive from Conneaut Lake to Meadville. A partnership between Allegheny College and PennDot (Pennsylvania Department of Transportation) has created two art projects using road signs - Signs & Flowers and Read Between the Signs. The flowers create a huge flower garden in one corner of the parking lot, with flowers high enough to dwarf a man. Read Between the Signs depicts rural and street scenes along a good stretch of the road. All of this out of road signs! It's constantly evolving and is guaranteed to have something new each year.

The detail is amazing. Look at this window...

To give you an idea of the size, this is my son standing by a street scene...

You can see how far this stretches...


A flower from Signs & Flowers...

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