BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Hyattsville -- Vanadu car parked in Greenbelt

MD -- Hyattsville -- Vanadu car parked in Greenbelt:

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Description of Subject Matter: Vanadu
3810 Nicholson St., Hyattsville, MD, 20782

“Vanadu”, an art car inspired by the poetically described palace of Kubla Khan as well as by the mansion in the movie “Citizen Kane”, is usually nestled in proximity to its home port of “As-sem-blage Co-ttage” (pronounced in the French manner in order to rhyme), also known as “Contempo-by-the-Lake”. The entire entity, resembling a sculpture garden and villa-ette gone mad, seeks to imbue flipped-on-its-head art history with the energy and risk of so-called “outsider” art, an exercise that permeates the inside and outside, the stationary and locomotive, as well as the individual works of art that adorn the site. Visitors are welcome -- I'm home a lot these days. Further works can be seen in the link to the adjoining "store" -- and yes, they are also for sale.

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures” ~ Voltaire.

For a fuller exploration of the work of A. Clarke Bedford, please visit clarkebedford.com. There you will find the invented histories of William Tecumseh Sherman and the Venus of Willendorf: The Suburban Years; contemporary artist Coleslaw Baklava; F. D. Kalley: The Prince of the American Renaissance; the history of Modernism as seen through imagery of the Argyll Sock and more. Also a biography, exhibition history, reviews and artist statement.

The above was from http://www.vanadu.wtf/
Wikipedia Description: Vanadu Art House
Hyattsville, Maryland
An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

Many years ago, museum conservator Clarke Bedford found himself alone with time to spare in his plain, mid-sized Maryland abode. From that day forward, Bedford began using all of his energy and heaps of unique objects and recycled metal to construct one of the world’s most hidden, out-of-place, and extravagantly designed art houses.
Known as “Vanadu,” Clarke Bedford’s peculiar art house is filled with a large collection of antiques, junk, and historical objects. Throughout the high-density cluster of sculptures and mosaics you’ll find a horned wooden owl, a black and white striped cone, a skull, a statue of John Locke, a German language globe stuffed inside a rusted horn, and a woman’s face covered in glass and colored fragments of junk.
Clarke Bedford also owns four fully functional art cars, made of everything from car parts to used washing machine pieces and moose antlers, which are typically placed on the curbside of the art house. The most famous car, the traveling Vanadu Ford, features vases and horns on the sides and graveyard spires on the roof, and it even has its own Facebook account. When he was working as a conservator for the Hirshhorn Museum, Bedford would drive one of the elaborate silver cars on his daily commute to work, and to this day the art cars remain one of Bedford’s major sources of transportation.
Clarke Bedford’s named his art car and house “Vanadu” to honor the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose famous “Kubla Khan” poem emerged from an opium-induced dream about the ancient Chinese city of Xanadu, once under the rule of Mongol emperor Kublai Khan. In addition to “Vanadu,” Bedford also calls his assemblage of recycled materials the Assemblage Cottage, pronounced with a French accent as “As-sem-blage Co-ttage.”

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The owner is happy to have visitors stroll the grounds and look, all you have to do is ask and say hello.

The above was from https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/vanadu-art-house
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