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GARMAN WALL

 Michael Garman 3D Cityscape

- The following article on the opening of the Colorado artist Michael Garman's 3-D art cityscape display was taken from the Fairmont Sentinel, 9/17/83, with permission from Sentinel Publisher, Gary Andersen. The cityscape sculpture, as you come in to the lobby, is 10' 6" inches tall and 30" deep by 18' long. 

  • Garman Wall - The once red brick of the two- and three-story buildings is stained brown and gray, a combination of age and the sooty atmosphere of an industrialized city. Debris litters the sidewalks and steps of the one-brick stretch of the cityscape, but none of the inhabitants seems to notice or to care. It is certainly the most exclusive neighborhood in the city. A man, his weight shifted onto his right foot, casually reads a newspaper that he had casually extracted from a heaping garbage can. There is no movement in the scene, which could have been lifted from the 1920s or the 1950s and yet the scene is alive with action. An easy conversation is in progress at the White Owl Cafe, three men outside the cafe could be discussing politics, a man propped in a doorway is reading a newspaper, a bored youngster leans against the dirty brick and converses with the literary connoisseur of the trash can and a man on the second floor peers out at the scene below. The inconsistencies in the scene are consistent with the cross-section of cultures in a concrete jungle - some of the people look like transplanted cowboys, some look like city toughs, and other are too average-looking to categorize. It's not difficult to get lost in the endless details. But take half a step backwards and observers are reminded that they are standing in the new addition to The Ranch Restaurant and not in downtown Chicago in the 1940s. Continued below...
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