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Chalk on the Wild Side: California Street Artist Brings Mount Fuju to LP Zoo
Monday is the last day to see Mount Fuji bursting from the concrete at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Pay the Lincoln Park Zoo a visit. We're certain you'll do a double take.
Three-dimensional pagodas and a mini Mount Fuji are sprouting from the concrete at the Lincoln Park Zoo.
Well, not technically. But, you wouldn't know it by looking. Los Angeles, Calif.-based street artist Tracy Lee Stum and her 3D crew began work last week on a trompe l'oeil-style mural in the zoo's Main Mall.
"Seems fitting that it’s located near the site of the zoo’s imminent Regenstein Macaque Forest, a planned, state-of-the-art home for Japanese macaques, or “snow monkeys," Zoo officials said, in a statement.
The term "trompe l'oeil" is French for "deceive the eye." The art technique has been growing in popular throughout the world. It focuses on creating an optical illusion that depicted objects—often, and in this case, a sidewalk drawing—are three dimensional.
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Sidewalk drawings can depict illusions of canyons, mountains, or other awe-inspiring creations. One popular work by Sturn shows a man plunging into a water-filled chasm paired with the words "dive into art."
Her Lincoln Park Zoo work is on display just north of the Kovler Sea Lion Pool and Kovler Lion House through Monday, Aug. 5. It's inspired by beverage company, Sobe's, Fuji Apple Pear Lifewater.
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