Mad Homes – An Art Exhibit

I saw the coolest art installation today, and you can too, through August 7^th- it’s open daily, 12 pm -7 pm.  It’s at Bellevue and Roy on Capitol Hill, and it’s four old homes that are slated for relocation or demolition – several artists have created temporary installations there that are pretty cool to see. Check out some photos:

This is a huge phoenix that swings from room to room; there are also a circular saw-like wave coming up from the floor, and a huge wolf popping up and down from another room’s floor – I didn’t see that one coming!

This one was SO striking – the artist had, starting at the front entry, sewn old clothes together to cover the floor, walls, stair risers, and ceiling, and used light colors to more mid-tones, that eventually ended in these dark colors.

Here’s the living room…

Here is the entry, with clothing everywhere – it was pretty impressive.

Here are some slide projectors that, every couple seconds, click over to a new set of random words; there’s a little couch behind them to sit awhile and watch if you want.

This room’s description is hard to convey with words and a photo – the artist must’ve used miles of string that attached to pins all over the room, that left the walls and came into the room too – they made these great images on the walls, and spiderweb-like mazes to walk through.

All this wood was taken from one of the homes, and reconfigured into a giant architectural detail – I certainly wish my yard was big enough to have something like this in it!

MadArt’s goal with this project was to “provide unexpected enjoyment and a distinctive educational experience for the neighborhood and visitors, while providing local artists a valuable and rare opportunity to create artwork.” I’m looking forward to the next one, and I hope you don’t miss this one!