The year was "1953", suburbia was sprawling, and baseball fields were shrinking to back yards, and balls were slowly evolving "wiffles" . . .
The year was 200 - or rather two hundred years since Earth collided with another planetary body, blowing it to smithereens (which would eventually become the moon), and then began it's re-coagulation into the orb we all call home. Fireworks were millions of years in the future but I thought it would be nice to commemorate the "Bicentennial" of this collection of rock, molten rock, rock ice, and bits of water. Why Legos? Well, it was just a planetary toddler: innocent, but constructive in it's own growth.
Side note: we got our window vinyl! Designed as a wacky grid by Owen Sherwood and myself, and photographed by Caroline Corrigan, Education + Exhibitions Manager up at the Art Center. Thanks, Caroline!
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Love the 1953 piece! I like how the pieces will tie in with the tchotchkes.
Thanks, Jahsar! Yeah, Ive been wanting to do a wiffle ball box for about a bazillion years. It's just one of those old designs I love. Plus the curve and slider illustrations on the side of the box are totally wrong. Awesome. And thanks to Jed and Jen Heuer for the new pristine wiffle ball I got for my birthday last year!
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