Amy Weahry, over at Blackheart Cleveland has reported that Merrick House intends to sell at auction the other-worldly Scott Radke concrete pipe paintings, one of which is seen in the image above. The strange faces of children are about as undecipherable as the lightening arrestors, switches, and transformer cooling fins on the pole mounted power equipment in the background. I have stopped and taken photos of these pipe people a half dozen times, and have never known who the artist was - because there is no artist credit plaque I could find.
Lack of artist credit/recognition is common around Cleveland.
Thanks Ms. Weahry for bringing me up to speed on Mr Radke.
I checked out
Scott Radke’s web site , and couldn’t find anything about the pipes – what is the name of the pipe people work?
Whoever bids at the auction will surely have in mind that moving these precast pipe sections will be a little more costly than bringing home a framed painting.
Maybe the pipes should just be moved in the neighborhood? or set on the edge of the bluff across the street.
(Ms. Weahry, btw, a few of the links in your report are not active - I couldn't find the Merrick house auction information – when is the auction?)