'Mother Leeds Displaced Cranes' by D.M. Weeks
Triple Adirondack Chair, Atlantic City Boardwalk, Chelsea Avenue
Multidisciplinary artist David Weeks pulls inspiration from nature and his metropolitan surroundings. Often playing with repetition of subject matter through visceral expressionistic mark making. It is in using these marks he begins to tell dream-like stories that emerge from black backgrounds that pulse across the eye.
As is the case with the presentation of “Mrs. Leeds displaced cranes.” David presents the forms of two dancing sand hill cranes as the possible and often thought of reality of the Jersey devil. These cranes have been documented in multiple occasions to get displaced from their southern homes during storms and find their way north to the New Jersey and Philadelphia area. You can imagine them in their cryptid forms sitting atop a barn in their 6-foot glory, taking flight to have their bright red heads catch the moonlight as it disappears into the dark. The chair also includes Easter eggs that may point the viewer deeper into the pines to try and find more proof of Mrs. Leeds infamous 13th child.
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