The Bridge as Art

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From Highway 129 South between Jasper and Live Oak, Florida, just across the road from The Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park and Campground, turn off at the sign that says Suwanee Springs. Signs along that road say Bridge Out but it’s not really Out, it’s just blocked off from vehicles. It’s perfectly safe to walk on the bridge, and people do.

They not only walk on it, they paint on it. The entire concrete and steel structure is covered with colorful artworks of varying skill.DSCF9657DSCF9658DSCF9659DSCF9660This is art with heart. ..  DSCF9661DSCF9662DSCF9667… made by people who saw this bridge not so much as a way to get from here to there, but as a place to stop… and to be… and to express the love that spills out of their hearts in splashes of color and creativity.DSCF9669DSCF9671DSCF9673Even nature is inspired, using wind and water to texture a concrete post so that lichens and the like may exhibit their muted colors of living art.DSCF9676

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