The Reason for the Flowers.
Right when I was about to step off from the street curb, a blazing yellow vehicle bearing sky-blue and pink decals raced past me. When I looked up, I saw that the streets lined up with several taxicabs that had the same colorful flower decals. Not knowing why there were all of a sudden flowers painted on taxis, I decided to research more about the reason for these newly designed taxis. Apparently, these flowery cabs are part of a temporary project called Garden in Transit. The Massey brothers, who founded an organization called Portraits of Hope, originally started this project. The intention was a sort of creative therapy for critically ill and disabled children. This event is to commemorate the 100th anniversary of New York’s first motorized taxi and lasts from September to December 2007. I think that the new design on the taxicabs is a nice change to the typical yellow hue taxi look. The yellow hue of the cabs already made the taxicabs stand out, but the flowers make it even more distinguished and noticeable among all the other vehicles on the streets. And the fact that the flowers were painted on by the sick children of the city makes the taxicab art even more beautiful. The reason for why a flower was chosen as the symbol to be painted on taxicabs was because it was the symbol of hope; hope for the children.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:42 am
It souds like your research paid off. Frequently I’ll see something that sparks my interest but I’m not sure why. Then if I do a bit of research I learn more and gain a more complete understanding and appreciation for it. Often the thing that caught my attention at first ends up being only a minor part of my interest in the work in the end. But without that little spark of interest I’m unlikely to notice something or want to learn more about it.
October 18th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Oh wow, sick children painted those taxis?! I was curious the first instant I spotted those taxis, but I never cared enough to find out why they have flowers painted on them. Thank you for enlightening me with your blurb!
October 18th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
As Wendy said, wow! I did not know that were was so much meaning behind the flowers…I thought that they were just there to make the taxicabs look nicer. Very interesting.