Culinary Class and Portland Public Art
Another fun class this morning. Quickly learned that after years of cooking, I still don’t know how to chop onions (well, actually I do now) or how to hold a chef’s knife.
Class ran a bit late, but it still left me time to head into South West Portland in the area around the South Park Blocks to photograph some public art.
This bronze statue is located in Pioneer Courthouse Square. Named “Allow Me” (aka Umbrella Man) by artist John Seward Johnson.
A couple blocks away is the Portland Building with it’s statue, Portlandia. It’s the second largest hammered copper statue in the U.S. after the Statue of Liberty.
Next statue is “The Quest” (more commonly known as “Three Groins in a Fountain”). This sits in front of the Standard Insurance Building.
While really not art, the Pioneer Courthouse, which sits next to Pioneer Courthouse Square, is the oldest federal building in the Pacific Northwest and the second oldest west of the Mississippi.
And finally, Benson Bubblers. These fountains were installed all over downtown Portland by Simon Benson, teetotaling lumber baron, to cut down on the consumption of alcohol at the turn of the (20th) century. Most are still bubbling along.
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