On June 21st, Tom Block's "Cousins" public art project was selected as the winner for the Kennett St. Art Wall in South Silver Spring, to be installed along the entrance wall to the Kennett Street Parking lot, off of Eastern Ave. in South Silver Spring.
The "Cousins" public art project was conceived to echo the highest aspects of the Silver Spring community by combining an elegant, Eastern-inspired visual with sayings from wisdom masters from a variety of ethnicities, religions, geographic regions and time periods. Fusing words representing the highest aspirations of humankind (taken from great humanists such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, the Buddha, etc.) with specially created paintings, Cousins will place 15 large, 8' x 4.5' art and text panels along the Kennett Street Art Wall, transforming that alley space into a huge art gallery. This project uses South Silver Spring's diversity as an asset by emphasizing not only the different cultures in the community, but also how they positively interrelate. Going far beyond simply adding an attractive facet to the local urban culture, "Cousins" represents the highest aspirations of our community's collective soul.
At the event, community members were issued a ballot, to choose 13 winners from among the 78 final images created by Tom. Each saying to be included on the Art Wall was represented by 6 different text/image panels exhibited on tables around the outside of the gallery.
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