Flowers Take to the New York City Streets
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One of New York's crafty cabs. | New York City recently unveiled a sea of flowers, in the form of colorfully hand-painted and weatherproofed adhesives, which permeate throughout the city via taxi cabs.
Throughout the fall the yellow taxi cabs will feature the colorful flower art on their trunk, hood, and rooftop, created by physically disabled and seriously ill children. It’s part of a public arts project sponsored by the New York City government and a nonprofit group called Portraits of Hope.
Why flowers? According to the Web site, the program’s aim is to brighten the lives of children and adults, and “the flower is the universal icon of joy, life, beauty, hope, inspiration and healing — the heart of the Portraits of Hope message.”
This display isn’t a first for the Portraits of Hope’s flower art project. Children’s flower artwork has appeared everywhere from on planes and blimps to boats and NASCAR racecars, to name a few.
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