This new mural on the Old Georgetown Road side of the Woodmont Corner Public Parking Garage 11 has turned out to be one of the best public art pieces created in Bethesda in many years. The title and artist have still not been made public by the Bethesda Urban Partnership, which commissioned the mural for its Paint the Town project. It's now obvious, though, that the artist brilliantly played on the idea of the parking deck level separations with an image of a person looking out from behind venetian blinds.
A good public art installation gets the mind going, and this one certainly does. It's more than a peek from behind the blinds; there's a sense of urgency in the extreme bending of them for a wider view.
What are they looking out at? Is it a commentary on the isolation of recent times? The environment of fear some wish to foster in our society? Or are they simply looking at the latest apartment tower rising in downtown Bethesda? Great art allows you to decide.
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My interpretation is of a person looking to see if it's safe to come outside in the wake of the pandemic.
Like all good art, it's open to interpretation!
I love the photo-realism of the eyes in particular. Very well executed!
This is so much cooler that the more abstract images other murals. The new one on Auburn is perhaps the worst example.
Creepy
Since Marriott is going to have exclusive use of this garage during the week, I hope they paid for this.
I think it’s a quintessential Bethesda resident looking outside to “see about all the racket” coming from the few youths left in town
Waste of money. They are looking up at God and thinking "Why, Why?"
Oh that's right, no God talk is allowed in liberal Utopia.
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