One of my favorite eye-candy sites (non-gardening) is EnglishRussia (‘Because something cool happens daily on 1/6 of the Earth’s surface”). I have a creepy affinity for all things former-Soviet and Eastern European. And this photo gallery, Art on the Plant, really struck a chord.
And I love the broken-English (much better than my Russian, for sure) descriptions:
This is the biggest Ural plant “URALMASHâ€, in order to build it they destroyed thousand of square miles of virgin thousand years old aged forests 60 years ago. It was working thru all the Soviet era and then during the capitalistic phase of modern Russian economy too, but now because of the world’s crisis it has been stopped. Now the rooms of the plant stand still and some artist has completed the nature paintings on the lockers around the plant so that it looks even more creepy now.
But this is still my favorite piece of Soviet arcana …
Thanks for the link. The pictures reminded me of an art installation at an old warehouse in Richmond. Each of the many bays of the loading dock had a mattress leaning against the garage-like doors. The found mattresses were painted by VCU art students and were all entirely different. It was a very cool body of work, but I kept thinking that someone had to touch those old mattresses.
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