The Mark Ravitz sculpture inside the storefront where Park Slope Books used to be is really cool.
It’s sort of a standing anthropomorphic version of one of Ravitz’s drips. Think sun/octopus creature with a cyclops-like eye.
The artist has posed a light on the sculpture, which makes it easy to see around the clock and gives the space of very dramatic feeling. The octopus/cyclops creature definitely draws attention to the storefront, which is empty. There’s a For Rent banner on the window.
For Rent by owner it says. No food.
About the drips, Ravitz says, "…they are an abstract expression of an other worldly entity of an unexpected experience. They have made thousands of people smile."
Indeed.
Yes, I agree: this piece of art in a public place enhances the community. Now, if we can only get rid of that atrocious thing in the park….the sign on it says that the installation was to have concluded in December.