In our last Blast from the Past, we took a look at construction of the Colorado Convention Center expansion. On a related note, for this week’s Blast we’ve got one of the convention center’s most popular elements, the Big Blue Bear (officially titled “I See What You Mean” by artist Lawrence Argent).
On June 21, 2005, I caught the Bear under construction.
Lower torso installed:
The head and other body parts sit nearby:
View from inside the convention center:
It’s hard to believe, but the Big Blue Bear is almost 11 years old!
I thought it would be great if we had a few more of the bears around town, like a purple one trying to watch a Rockies game, or a red one catching a show at Red Rocks.
Scared me to death when I loaded this page and saw the poor blue bear looking destroyed. Glad to see that it was just a blast from the past.
Funny, I thought the exact same thing: “Oh my goodness, what happened!?” I guess that reaction is the sign of a public art piece that really works.