Liz Caile Essay Contest 2007
2nd place Clarissa Blackmer
"City in Contrast"
Staring out the window of the Denver Art Museum,
wondering how this place came to be-
how Picasso and Arcimboldo would feel about their masterpieces surrounded by the dull,
sharp, dreary, architecture of the modern city.
How odd it is that the landscapes of Remington have been replaced.
Where the emigrants once gaped in awe at the mountains, there is now the cold steel and
plaster of corporate buildings and condos.
Where the buffalo once roamed now only stand icy, bronze sculptures of the creatures.
An artists attempt to regain what we destroyed.
Looking out at denver, the "beautiful Mile-High City". Am I the only one who notices
the contrast of Civic Park? The Grecian neo classical columns in contrast to the steam
rising out of the sewer behind them. The sick irony of those classic pillars, inspired by the
romance of the ancients, primarily used to protect vagrants draped in plastic bags.