Portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe

Marisol ... Cast Bronze ... 1982

A bit below Jackson Square is the Sydney G. Walton park, a privately owned, publicly accessible green. Smack-dab in the middle of condo country, it sits across from the Safeway on Jackson Street. Several pieces sit in the park, all positioned in a somewhat offhand manner. I suspect that the developer had a budget, a map, and said put art here, here, and here, and get it done by Tuesday. It turned out well because we have several small, interesting things, with backstories, as opposed to one honkin' big pile of welded steel dropped in on a concrete platform.

Marisol's biography is interesting (read: overwrought). Portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe is about lifesize, comfortable to be around, and visually disassembles itself when you move from a face-on view to seeing it from the side and back. There aren't too many benches in the park, and plenty of gimmies, so you have to step lively, but the tourists are usually sidetracked by the chrome moderne shopping opportunities up the street.