"Colibrís Gigantes En El Puente De La Calle Sexta" (Giant Hummingbirds at Six Street Bridge) by Ithaka Darin Pappas

 "Colibrís Gigantes En El Puente De La Calle Sexta" 

(or Giant Hummingbirds at Six Street Bridge) by Ithaka Darin Pappas

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

"Colibrís Gigantes en el Puente de la Calle Sexta" is a 2024 mixed-media artwork by photographer/artist Ithaka Darin Pappas for his international photo-collage series, Urban Nektar. Created on wood with ink, paper and acrylic paints, the original piece measures 120cm x 80cm.

"Colibrís Gigantes en el Puente de la Calle Sexta" portrays two gigantic hummingbirds feeding on fluorescent-colored cactus flowers growing directly out of the cement arches of the Sixth Street bridge in downtown Los Angeles (designed by architect Michael Maltzan).

During late 2024, Ithaka Darin Pappas made hundreds of reproductions of the image "Colibrís Gigantes en el Puente de la Calle Sexta" on long rolls of canvas panel and hung them throughout the downtown Los Angeles area surrounding the bridge, including; Boyle Heights, The Arts District, Skid Row and Little Tokyo. Graffiti artists quickly recognized the potential of surfaces and proceeded to tag upon, transforming them into new unsolicited 'collaborative works'.

"Floral Attraction" a photograph by Ithaka Darin Pappas © 2020

"Floral Attraction" 

a photograph by artist Ithaka Darin Pappas  © 2020

@photographer_ithaka.d.pappas

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Photo: Ithaka Darin Pappas © 2020

Note: This image is not Public Domain, it is Necessary to acquire authorization

 before reproducing in print, online or merchandising.
Please contact ithaka.art@gmail.com - thank you.

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"Polyrhythm" (1992) by Takashi Murakami. Photo by Ithaka Darin Pappas

Takashi Murakami with "Polyrhythm" (1992) Photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas at Galerie Mars in Shibuya-Ku

 At the beginning of his career, Murakami appeared to be content with the lot of most successful contemporary artists: to create work that is admired by critics and desired by wealthy collectors but leaves the general public baffled or hostile. He was constructing conceptual pieces similar to the art being made in the West. Among those early works, which began attracting attention in the early 90's, was "Polyrhythm", a seven-foot-high slab of yellow resin, minimalist in form, on which many toy United States infantry soldiers climb. 

Read Full article here:  https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/the-murakami-method.html

Takashi Murakami photographed with "Polyrhythm" by Ithaka Darin Pappas 

in Tokyo Los Angeles (1992) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Murakami

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ithaka.art@gmail.com - Also see: @_ithaka_

Artist David Onri Anderson "Apple Core Peace Temple” Patrick Painter Gallery

Nashville based artist David Onri Anderson at the opening of his exhibit "Apple Core Peace Temple” hosted Patrick Painter Gallery (Bergamot Arts Center, Santa Monica, California) in March 2019. Photo by Ithaka Darin Pappas