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February 2, 2007
I love community art
My company's headquarters is Basel, Switzerland, where the campus sprawls over several city blocks of post-modern architecture and new construction. The long history of Swiss neutrality has a lot to do with a streak of fierce independence that is apparently manifesting itself in a love of 1964 design from the amount of colored glass and massive concrete and steel girdered-retro look of the new buildings. Either that, or it's a communal backlash against too many years of any thing 'French Country' or 'Shabby Chic' being mongered as civilization's ultimate decor. In which case, I kind of see their point.
My favorite part of campus is the under-street tunnel which joins the two halves otherwise separated by a busy thoroughfare. Some years ago, someone brought in a number of school children to paint a mural on the walls of the tunnel. Apparently trying to create a health-care 'motif' for the tunnel (we are a life sciences company, after all), they asked the children to illustrate various interpretations of the digestive system.
This resulted in what I lovingly refer to as the "poop mural"
Notice how the chicken poop magically turns to eggs at some point in this one.
I would have tried to capture them all, but my colleagues walking past were beginning to look at me funny for taking picture of the tunnel.
Posted by Ken at February 2, 2007 12:52 PM