The Westport Public Art Collections feature over 1,500 works.
Some are by artists like Picasso. Some are famous, like Muhammad Ali’s fist. Many are by local illustrators, and/or show local landmarks.
But not all are oils, watercolors and photographs.
WestPAC includes a number of outdoor sculptures. They’re at sites like Jesup Green, Grace Salmon Park — and Canal Park.
That one –“Seagull,” by Christopher Ray — was the subject of last week’s Photo Challenge. (Click here to see.)
According to Kitty Graves, one of several readers who correctly identified the Challenge — he created it for his mother’s garden. (She was the well known garden designer Eloise Ray. A park named in her honor on Riverside Avenue features a different (non-Christopher Ray) sculpture.
Others who knew where “Seagull” landed were Morley Boyd, Andrew Colabella, Lynn Untermeyer Miller, Claudia Sherwood Servidio, Sal Liccione, Maja Sholler and Jen Fridland.
Here’s a hint to today’s Photo Challenge: It’s outdoors.
You probably figured that out on your own. If you also figure out where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.
(Photo/Jerry Kuyper)
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It looks like the special “mat” on Compo Beach that allows wheelchair access over the sand.
The mat at compo beach that leads to the water
Mobi- mat at the beach
certainly looks like an up close view of the helpful ‘treds’/ mat to help for wheelchair access to beach /water
The special mat at Compo Beach that allows for easier access down to the water from the parking lot.
Wow — you all are good! I wondered if anyone would get this. But you’re right — it’s the “mobi-mat” at Compo Beach, originally designed for wheelchairs but also great for parents with strollers. Well done!
I had no doubt, you have a very perceptive, creative audience.
One questions – where is Andrew ?
The mat is also useful for people recovering on crutches or canes.
Jerry
The removable walkway for those that have wheeled and other types of mobility devices. Located at Compo’s main beach and the south beach.
That looks like the path at the beach for wheelchair access to the sound
Compo Beach mat for wheelchairs and others too.
Wheel chair paths on the sand; compo
Wheelchair path at Compo!
Mobi-mat! Compo beach
Mobi Mat at Compo
compo beach the special walkway path to the water
I believe it was John Huminski’s idea.
Mobi Mat at compo