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<\/a> Make like a tourist in your own hometown and head to the North Embarcadero\u2019s newest crop of \u201cUrban Trees.\u201d<\/p>\nThe latest series in the Port of San Diego\u2019s public art project along San Diego\u2019s downtown waterfront, Urban Trees 6 is this year\u2019s selection of 30 sculptures by 30 artists. The public art project is in its sixth year, with a new crop \u201cplanted\u201d each year so far. This crop will be up through next summer.<\/p>\n
Many of the sculptures are kinetic, moving with the wind. Many others reflect the sun that so often shines on this picture-postcard view. And they\u2019re all for sale, once their year-long exhibition here is completed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing a part of previous Urban Trees exhibits has helped my art career phenomenally,\u201d said Amos Robinson, who has participated for five of the six years. His latest, \u201cSweet Music,\u201d is a polished metal piece of a musician on bended knee serenading his graceful partner who responds by dancing. \u201cAs love is said to make the world go \u2018round, it\u2019s the wind that sets this kinetic artwork in motion and the sun and sky that enliven its polished surfaces,\u201d says the port in its online listing of the latest Urban Trees and their locations along the North Embarcadero.<\/p>\n
Robinson\u2019s sculpture is listed for $30,000. His \u201cMy Bike,\u201d from a previous year\u2019s crop, was recently bought by the port district to be sited on the tidelands next to Coronado\u2019s bike path.<\/p>\n
The Port of San Diego has purchased several Urban Trees from each year for its permanent public art collection. They\u2019re being relocated to parks and public spaces around the bay. An anonymous benefactor bought 10 and donated them to sculpture gardens at Scripps Memorial Hospitals in La Jolla and Encinitas. Others have been permanently planted at Chula Vista Library Civic Center Branch, Chula Vista Nature Center and on Imperial Beach\u2019s Palm Avenue where the Silver Strand begins.<\/p>\n
Near the Maritime Museum is Cathy Ann Janes\u2019 \u201cThank You,\u201d this year\u2019s most expensive sculpture, listed at $45,000. U.S. military dog tags are the feathers on the seven-foot wings of this American eagle. She says it\u2019s a tribute and remembrance to those who have served and a thank-you to soldiers returning home.<\/p>\n
At least one asks you to participate in its movement. David Thefeld\u2019s \u201cOn Board,\u201d also near the maritime museum, consists of three whimsical reptiles on a checkerboard that swirls skyward. This 17-foot-tall kinetic sculpture can be spun by turning the lavender wheel at its bottom.<\/p>\n
Cathy Coverley\u2019s \u201cWind & Shadow\u201d features a blue and yellow powder-coated canopy holding several colored glass disks; it rotates slowly in the breeze, casting colored patterns and shadows on the pavement below.<\/p>\n
Mitchell Gaul\u2019s \u201cFormula 2 – Overturn 3\u201d is an aluminum and steel sculpture that moves in three dimensions with the wind. The shiny steel elements seem to float. The artist said he named it after a fabrication process used to manage three-dimensional complex objects.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy Ocean Is Your Ocean, Mi Mar Es Tu Mar\u201d by Avra Michelle Strauss and Brent Sumner features real sand in the base of this sandcastle-like piece that depicts two mother mermaids back to back, representing San Diego\u2019s and Tijuana\u2019s shared responsibility for preventing human pollution, according to the port district\u2019s listing.<\/p>\n
The 30 sculptures are located from the cruise ship terminal to a little bit north of Hawthorn Street. It takes just about 45 minutes to walk up and back, but give yourself at least an hour to ponder the pieces and their artists\u2019 intentions.<\/p>\n
Before you go, download the listing of the pieces and their artists\u2019 intentions at the port district\u2019s web site: http:\/\/www.portofsandiego.org\/public-art\/urban-trees-6\/1710-urban-trees-6-gallery.html.<\/p>\n
It makes for a delightful short urban hike in a place usually traveled only by tourists — or downtown workers jogging on their lunch hours.<\/p>\n
Along the route, you might notice some other interesting facets of your own city\u2019s waterfront that you may have missed, including the fascinating and growing collection of ships that make up the San Diego Maritime Museum.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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