Seasonal Window Art with a twist...

Christmas season in the old port. 
Every shop dressing their space for the big dance.

Love Window shopping.
That's actually within my holiday budget this year,
so I've been doing a lot of it.

I got art surprised yesterday at the corner of Trinket & Fern, oh I mean the corner of Market & Middle streets in the upper old port.
The New Shop Trinket & Fern is now the new sales home for several local artists.  It's the brain child of Lynn Curit-Smith & Ian Smith   They wanted to create a place where local artisans and local shoppers can meet and exchange goods. 

Back to the window shopping
So I was just browsing the window of Sebago Brewery looking at the Brewtique T's & lounge ware, then over to the Corduroy Surf Ski Gallery-Boutique after that I cross Market to the corner of Market and Middle.  There are 6 street level windows on the corner shop and they have displayed these  20" x 30"diorama's . (You know a diorama usually a model of something typically framed or in a box). So in each window there are two dioramas :12 drums in one diorama box and the other one in the window has 11 skateboarding dudes jumping off a mini skate park ramps complete with graffiti, In the next window 10 small shore birds, they look like Piping plovers, those birds your not even suppose to look at if you see them at the beach.  There's a couple dioramas with Geese, Swans, and women milking cows that's just in the Market street side windows.  The Middle street side has one diorama with 5 huge gaudy gold rings (still nothing) and then when I see a diorama with the 3 fashionista ladies observing a French dada-istic art scene, it hits me, yo three French Hens, yeah the 11 Skate board dudes are "Lords a Leaping",  Did you ever hear or see that  Movie the Lords of Dogtown loved it,  It took a lil'bit but now I got it; 12 drummers drumming,  11 Lords a Leaping, 10 Piping Plovers... it's the 12 days of Christmas done up like you would expect in ART CITY,   Left of center with a twist! 

The 12 days is art for a cause created by the Trinket & Fern Artists,  the diorama boxes are going to be raffled or if you've got flow you can just buy one outright ($50.00).  All proceeds from the 12 days will go to help the Portland Ronald McDonald house.
Funky fresh Art giving back to the community!   AMERICA WHAT A COUNTRY!

Thank you to the artists and  Ian & Lynn at Middle & Market , I mean Trinket & Fern. Please click on the links for more information on T & F, the exhibit and the cause.

Why go to the corner of Trinket & Fern

in the upper old port?

       Because your good mind needs good art!

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