Birds in Flight is a striking piece of art found along the Sycamore Greenway. Less than half a mile to the north can be found another public art piece: a pair of mosaic obelisks marking the entrance to the trail near Grant Wood Elementary.
Designed and created by students from City High, and installed in 2014, the mosaics (titled Grant Wood: A Neighborhood of Seasons) were assembled with contributions from around 75 students over the course of two years. Each obelisk depicts a year of activities , faced with winter, spring, summer, and fall scenes featuring trees and trails.
With charming detail, the scenes include bicycling and dog-walking, football and snowball fights. The flora changes through each panel, and different weather and times of day can be discerned. The colorful glass tesserae, simple colors and shapes individually, come together to create a complex and cohesive whole in the same way that each plant, each animal, each person in a community comes together to tell a story more complete than any individual can create.
- Read about the installation of the mosaics from the Press Citizen.
- Review the city's Public Art Strategic Plan.
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