Photography and the Talent of David Adickes
I can say that we are very intrigued and fascinated by Mr. Adickes talents. We have visited Summer Street a few times since my son took us by there when he moved in to the area.
More on the artist, David Adickes, here... and here
The Beatles statues are now up at Sculpturworx on Summer Street near Sawyer in west Houston and they were created by a man who's left his mark on other parts of southeast Texas.
On one lot, he's erecting 36-foot-tall statues of the Beatles. On another, he plans huge busts of four Texas and national historic figures, which he'll call "Mount Rush Hour."
In May 2007 Adickes will erect four 36-foot-tall statues of The Beatles -- his favorite musical group -- along I-10, just west of downtown Houston. Also in 2007, only a few miles east along the freeway, Adickes will unveil oversized shoulder-to-shoulder busts of Washington, Lincoln, Houston, and Austin at a curve where the traffic always bottlenecks. He plans to christen it "Mt Rushhour."
More here: Texas to Get Prez Heads and Titanic Cowboy
But Mr. Adickes dreams of a far more ambitious project: a lanky, 280-foot-tall cowboy that he says would be the tallest statue in North America. That's nearly twice as tall as the 151-foot Statue of Liberty. Mr. Adickes envisions his cowboy standing beside one of the state's busiest freeways right in the heart of Texas.
"That will be the last one," he says.
posted by a faith bigger than fear at Sunday, January 27, 2008
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