Friday, August 8, 2008

COWifornia Dreamin'

Ever seen a grown cow naked?

San Diego will be soon be invaded by 200 cows of a different color.

Held January through March, the international CowParade art festival will spotlight San Diego as one of their featured cities for the 2009 exhibition.

200 artists from San Diego and Tijuana (Mexico) will participate by designing and painting life-sized fiberglass cows. The finished pieces will be displayed throughout the mean streets of San Diego, forcing most residents to ask themselves, "What the fuck?" But after all, isn't that what modern art is all about?

This week I got a sneak peek at what some of the artists are doing to innocent livestock.


Tijuana artist Jorge Tellaeche proves that his cow is not just a piece of art. It can also be used as a handy leaning post.

San Diego artist Lowell Niles de-ASS-itated his bovine.

These aren't your normal livestock colors.

"I'm not just another pretty face", Bessie exclaimed mooingly.

All wrapped up and nowhere to go.

2 comments:

Bryan said...

As silly as it sounds, they're not blazing any trails. For example, here's the squirrels of Glendale Ohio.

http://www.glendaleohio.org/squirrels.html

Ro said...

Yeah but cows are 100% more delicious than squirrels.