Big City Sights

It seems that almost every time I go downtown, I find something surprising. Recently, when I arrived at Navy Pier to volunteer at the children’s museum, I found two large Day of the Dead figures.

Since it was spring, not fall, it was not only their size that was surprising. It turned out they were part of Mexico Fest at the Pier.

The next day, I was lucky enough to be on my way to an event at the Newberry Library during 900 Michigan’s Fleur de Villes event.

The mannequins are dressed in real flowers and plants. I was especially impressed by the shorts on one of the few male mannequins.

The theme of this year’s Fleur de Villes event was Voyage: “This 5 day show will feature six levels of floral mannequins paying homage to humans wanderlust, all created by Chicago’s top floral artists.”

Last week, when I arrived at the Pier, I was amazed to see a large gorilla in the distance. On my way home, I went over to check it out and found out it was part of a trio of very large transformers who were there to publicize a new movie.

They were packing them up when I arrived this week. Cranes and lots of wooden boxes were involved, and when I left several hours later, the packing up was still going on.

A new sculpture a short distance away will stay a while longer. As I walked toward him, I thought he was a fox, but it turns out his title is Bastet, so maybe he is a cat.

This post will have to end “to be continued” because I just realized that while I wrote about the new Hebru Brantley designed art studio I haven’t mentioned the new Fly Boy statue which is certainly another Big City Sight.