Rose Kennedy Greenway

mdd said:
I really don't like the new mural, to be honest.
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That's totally fair, and that is also the beauty of it. We get to see different murals for extended, yet limited, periods of time.

Also, I was downtown yesterday and every parcel of the Greenway was packed with people and filled with activities, kiosks, etc. It was a great site.
 
Have no clue what the mural's about but since I'm all about color I love it! And very glad to hear that the Greenway has become so active.
 
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From the MFA website:
Seven Moons (2013)—which serves as inspiration for Smith’s Greenway mural—is centered by a constellation of fabrics patterned with bursting fireworks and flowers. The work features a disposable coffee cup lid whose black form suggests the abstracted face of traditional African masks. Such subtle suggestions of ritual—at the personal, social or cosmic levels—reflect Smith’s broader interest in the ways different cultures seek to harness and direct energy. In paintings like No Key, No Question (2013), Smith explores shifts in texture, transparency and scale through a quieter palette of black and white fabrics, calligraphic gestures and collaged paper. From a distance, her abstract imagery may suggest a spiraling mandala pattern (a symbol of the universe in Hindu and Buddhist traditions) or the explosion of a galaxy. Up close, scraps of her own graffiti-influenced writing are combined with stickers pulled from the streets.
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http://www.mfa.org/news/shinique-smith
 
Leave parcel 18 alone. It's honestly one of my favorite sections: the ramps and trees to hide them give this one section a really nice feeling of seclusion, distinct from the other parts of the greenway.
 
statler said:
Yeah, that's pretty much what I was seeing.

*cough*
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This cracked me up statler, the barely visible cough is perfect. Well played sir.
Artspeak bloviation can be such hilarious comic gold.
The new stuff is colorful and pretty (nothing more than that to me) and just a more pleasant thing to look at than the previous grayness.
 
davem said:
Leave parcel 18 alone. It's honestly one of my favorite sections: the ramps and trees to hide them give this one section a really nice feeling of seclusion, distinct from the other parts of the greenway.
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I agree... I have no problem with 18 or even 6 as is. 18 doesn't feel like a highway off/on-ramp at all. I'm not sure how much you can clean up 6... it is what it is. But 12 is an ugly mess that would be great if it could be improved.
 
That Molasses Memorial is effing ridiculous. Basically a play on a modern triumphal arch to commemorate a man made disaster where 21 people died? And it is on the complete opposite side of the North End from where the flood happened. This makes almost no sense at all. Wrong place, wrong structure, wrong development.
 
At the same time I feel like it could be the right idea at least. The design is kind of pedestrian, but it 1) covers the highways, connecting various areas where new development will be taking place, 2) probably wouldn't be as expensive as a building, 3) introduces a focal point and some sort of raised viewing platform, which could be cool and 4) has a quirky Boston-type idea behind it. Just need a real designer to put something together instead of our friendly civil engineer. And don't call it a memorial, because that just gets depressing and has little marketability for tourists. (I feel that way at least.)
 
I'm just wondering why they even need this memorial. It's basically just doing it to create some new tourist photo op.
 
It's something for the site which avoids the need for decking over the ramps and any structure that might provoke the nearby residents.
 
Molasses flood memorial? With all of the city's history that's the best we can do? This is right out of Honktown.
 
Well, for better or worse the Great Molasses Flood is pretty notable piece of history for the city. I'm not sure what would be better for the location or city, but if there actually is something it could probably go in Christopher Columbus Park whenever that gets renamed.
 
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