Coffee Road Trip: Charlotte

CoffeeCat is jealous! All the time I spend in coffee shops, and I never got the brilliant idea to create works of art from coffee stir sticks and other materials found in coffee shops. Sigh.

I'll have to let the McColl Center for Visual Art explain this one:

uploaded from http://www.jonathanbrilliant.com/

"Jonathan Brilliant, who uses only coffee stir sticks, creates installations that are both ironic and labor intensive with a traditional craft sensibility. Inspired by the visual phenomena of patterning and mark-making, Brilliant’s installation, “Have Sticks Will Travel” uses the coffee shop as a natural environment and a common material found within most coffee shops, to suggests that the coffee shop and related consumer environs are more organic and nurturing than the “real” natural environment."

An opening reception is scheduled Sept. 24, 2010, from 6 to 9 p.m. The exhibit will be there until January, so there's NO EXCUSE for coffee shop fans to miss it.


What about it, readers? Do you think the coffee shop is more organic and nurturing than the environment?