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Bus Stations Remodeled With Graphic Flowers

A new series of custom-fabricated metal screens are popping up at bus stops across El Paso, Texas, displaying dramatically enlarged photographs of local plants and flowers. These virtual gardens are part of the Leaves of Wind project by Boston-based artist Catherine Widgery.

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At the Franklin station in Downtown El Paso's Arts District, Mexican Poppy brightens the view for neighbors and visitors alike. With the addition of these creative art installations across the city, more locals have taken to riding the bus, something that's seemingly good for the city, helpful to residents, and the environment.
At the Franklin station in Downtown El Paso's Arts District, Mexican Poppy brightens the view for neighbors and visitors alike. With the addition of these creative art installations across the city, more locals have taken to riding the bus, something that's seemingly good for the city, helpful to residents, and the environment.
Vitex flora adds a fanciful lavender shade to this urban Mesita bus shelter. Introduced October 2014, Leaves of Wind is a series of twenty public art installations incorporated into transit shelters on El Paso’s Mesa corridor of the new Brio Rapid Transit System.
Vitex flora adds a fanciful lavender shade to this urban Mesita bus shelter. Introduced October 2014, Leaves of Wind is a series of twenty public art installations incorporated into transit shelters on El Paso’s Mesa corridor of the new Brio Rapid Transit System.
Widgery considered the ideas of time, motion, and our perceptions of the physical world. "We often overlook what is immediately before us," Widgery's website explains, "because the human mind manages visual overload by editing out the familiar." With this in mind, Widgery designed the artwork to "wink in and out of view," using "motion and surprise to enourage riders' awareness" of the beauty before them.
Widgery considered the ideas of time, motion, and our perceptions of the physical world. "We often overlook what is immediately before us," Widgery's website explains, "because the human mind manages visual overload by editing out the familiar." With this in mind, Widgery designed the artwork to "wink in and out of view," using "motion and surprise to enourage riders' awareness" of the beauty before them.
Algerian Ivy at the Monticello station.
Algerian Ivy at the Monticello station.