The Saint Louis Art Fair is taking place this weekend. It's big, taking up several city blocks in the suburb of Clayton. That's become a second downtown, modern, sleek and sanitary. The fair is hard to photograph since it is very crowded on a beautiful weekend like this. What got my eye was a plaza leading to a parking garage. The design is unusual if nothing else.
Another section of the flood wall at Paint Louis. I'm not sure what the scarlet pipes are for. Maybe something to do with a natural gas pipeline, but that's a guess. They fit nicely with the new paint job and the cloudless sky.
Thers is a delightful band of waterlogged vagabonds calling itself The Flotsam River Circus, http://www.rivercircus.com/about.html . They have spent the summer floating down the Mighty Mississippi, mooring their rickety barge/stage at the river towns from Minneapolis-St. Paul on south, performing a wacky mix of music, comedy and acrobatics. Their last stop of the season is here this weekend.
This late-summer night was perfect, even if the cobblestone levee was rough. We took granddaughter Ellie who declared it the best circus she had ever seen. For locals, it is repeated tonight and tomorrow at 6. Free, but donations are very appropriate. It's located on the river just north of Eads Bridge, with nearby parking in Laclede's Landing.
Perhaps how an artist feels after the work of Paint Louis is done. It's photography geek stuff, but I like how the formal elements in this one turned out. Dark, sharp, cool but active against warm, round and passive. Horizontal wall top against the vertical smokestacks. They are across the Mississippi in Illinois so they're pretty big.
There are a number of things going on around town this weekend so I hope to have something fresh to show. Midweek we blow off on another adventure.
Hieronymus Bosch on a particularly bad trip, or maybe a contemporary painter off anti-psychotics. I've mentioned that some of the Paint Louis wall art reminds me of particular artists. This one makes me think of Francis Bacon, https://www.francis-bacon.com/paintings . You see his work in all the big museums. I find it deeply disturbing and walk by it quickly.
