When you walk around the streets and sidewalks of Salida, you begin to notice animals. Not just the deer in the park or birds on a wire, but small sculptures tucked away on porches and backyards. Or larger ones seeming to be fenced in.
Now this may be influenced by the town's commercial artists who hold forth in galleries. These shops exhibit a range of animal expressions from the iconic to the downright weird. All capture some sense of movement or wildness combined with playfulness.
What I find unique, though, is the way folks...well those at least in the downtown cluster of bungalows...express humor and spontaneity through these renditions of our fellow creatures.
Not that our friends on the wire take notice...but then they perhaps have interpretations of us hidden away in their nests.
Location:Salida
