Saw this article in the LA Times for an event this Sunday in Echo Park. Thought it would be a great excuse to ride. Leave Bikerowave at 6pm, ride to the event, spend some watching the boat melt, maybe stop for something to eat, then ride back.
-ScottS
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-boat29apr29,1,1831641.story?ctrack=2&cset=trueThey're waxing artistic
Diane Haithman
April 29, 2007
ECHO PARK artist Justin Stadel is questioning the timelessness of art with an ephemeral public installation: "Death of Wax Boat."
Next Sunday, Stadel and associate Tony Saviour will launch into Echo Park Lake an 8-foot-long, 4-foot-wide sailboat cast entirely of wax candles except for a burlap wick that runs the length of the boat's floor.
Although the exterior wax is made smooth, inside the boat are dozens of candles with wicks pointed upward. At dusk, all the wicks will be lighted and park visitors can watch it melt away.
Why? "It's pretty much about turning the object of art into a moment," Stadel says. "The environment is attached to the art, and the art is attached to the environment."
This isn't the first time Stadel has played mind games with the Echo Park community. Last year's "Still Life in Memory" was a monthlong installation along Glendale Boulevard involving a park bench covered with yellow daisies and a trash receptacle clad in mirrors — or not, depending on when you happened by.
— Diane Haithman
