art in Davis Square store windows

[ron_newman]

from the Somerville Arts Council e-mail list:

Kathleen Finlay, A Somerville Arts Council Artists Fellowship grant winner, for her community benefit project, has installed large scale needles and thread configurations in window fronts of 3 local businesses. Each window has a different arrangement of needle and stitches. It is an installation of gesture and scale.

The large size and the location of the setup is disconcerting and surprising as well as humorous. The windows are in different sectors of Davis Square. As people look for the similar elements placed around the square, it is hoped that one is drawn into seeing things about their environment and activities that have gone unnoticed.

LOCATIONS:

1. Wedgewood-Crane & Connolly, 19 College Ave.
2. Sewing & Vacuum center, 280 Elm Street.
3. La Chic Boutique, 235A Elm Street

This is a community benefit project by Kathleen Finlay, a Somerville Arts Council Artists Fellowship grant winner. This project is supported in part by a grant from the Somerville Arts Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

Comments

[maelithil.livejournal.com]

I saw the installations, was moderately confused, and then decided that they were simply very ugly.

I mean, needle and thread? If they were thinking big they should have thought big (http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/2015/37184355a2478ec6bfrr5.jpg).