The Little Dutch Shoe

One of the painted Dutch shoes scattered throughout downtown Albany for this year's Sculpture In The Streets exhibit.  This cheery little shoe decorated with images of City Hall, Washington Park, and a family in colonial Dutch clothing (on the heel) is one of the smaller shoes at just over two feet long.  There are other shoes large enough to sit in.

This particular shoe is on Broadway near the old Argus building.

Dancing Giants

And, no, I'm not speaking of the New York Giants football team taking a break from their training camp at the SUNY Albany campus to hit a local disco!

This Victorian couple, like the Ladies of Liberty Park, is yet another part of the Sculpture In The Streets exhibit. But, unlike those two women frozen in place on a bench off of Hudson Avenue or the blue-suited man asleep under a newspaper across the street from City Hall, these two are not life-sized. This pair towers above passersby and traffic, easily over ten feet tall or more.

With very modern 677 Broadway and the Department of Environmental Conservation looming behind them, the romantic pair waltzes at Clinton Avenue between North Pearl Street and Broadway.

The Ladies of Liberty Park

From a distance, it seems like two elderly ladies are having a friendly chat in Albany's oldest park. But, like the gentleman napping under a newspaper in Academy Park, these women are statues...very life-like statues placed around downtown as part of the 2010 Sculpture In The Streets exhibit.

He's Not Real

At first glance, this appears to be a nicely dressed man taking a nap in the shade of Academy Park. At second glance, though, you realize he's not real.

This sleepy gentleman is part of the 2010 Sculpture In The Streets exhibit, a series of statues by Seward Johnson that are scattered around Albany's downtown.

Up close, the statues are obviously just that...cast bronze figures. But, seen unexpectedly from the corner of one's eye, they can be startling.

Check out All Over Albany's recent post for more about the exhibit.