It occurred to me recently that I hadn't been to Waterfire during the summer at all. Not a biggie, but generally I like to see it at once during the year. So I went downtown before sunset, spent a little time reading, then writing, in one of our city's many fine Starbuckses. After it was dark I went to the river, and by this time the fires had been set.
One of the side attractions was a living statue. A living statue is not, to the best of my knowledge, an actual statue come to life. Rather, it's a performer who stands still for an extended period of time, and then makes swift and/or subtle movements. This one was dressed as a gargoyle, with long, demonic fingers. Does make quite an impression when something looking like that starts moving. I mean, I think it's kind of hard, getting harder, to get people's attention out in the street. Our garoyle demon boy did the trick.
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I haven't seen any living statue performers since we came to Halifax (unless it was some poor person who stayed out too long in January), but there were a couple in Portland. The one I remember best was dressed all in silver and wore a baseball cap. The gargoyle guy was likely to be quite a startling sight in that surrounding. I'm glad to know Water Fire has continued in spite of budget cuts everywhere.
Yeah the budget cuts have probably made the sponsor names a little more prominent. What are you going to do?
Portland does seem like the kind of city that would be open to all sorts of eccentric artists.
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