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Walking around to the other side, the stamp reads, ‘FREE’, which is intriguing, because it couldn’t possibly have been free. It must have cost something.
I always find public art fascinating. While walking from the Ritz-Carlton in Cleveland to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, I’d sauntered through Erieview Plaza and behind Cleveland City Hall to emerge into Willard Park.
The two bridges in this view span the river at Carter Road. The blue bridge is active and carries the road traffic. The rusting bridge in front of it carried one of the railway spurs that used to serve the industrial area known locally as The Flats.
I’ve long been fascinated by reflections. I’m like a child seeing itself in a mirror for the first time and trying to make sense of what I see – familiar yet strange simultaneously.
What I liked particularly about this scene was the strip of cloud obscuring the sun. Below the cloud, the sun is casting radiant colors while above the sun is illuminating the higher clouds seemingly from below making the bottoms white and the tops grey.
I took this image from the eastern side of the Grand River, just north of the Pearl Street Bridge. I didn’t have my tripod with me so to steady the camera I braced it on the railing alongside the footpath.
