Fuzzy Bus

There’s something about the place that’s almost secretly perfect, and profoundly collected. Key Biscayne has benefited from its unusual history, because when the discoverers were setting foot here, they found no gold and kept on going. If they had, everything would be different, but things have worked out well for the place. Some geographical areas might feel a little slighted by the rejection at the hands of explorers, but Biscayne never had gold to offer in the first place. Its real treasures were unobservable to their limited vision.

It’s not unseen by artists however. It actually hasn’t been unacknowledged by anyone who’s ever had the pleasure to live or visit here, where the natural beauty is abundant, and the city is fabulous and still manageable. But it takes an artist to see the metaphors, and make them visible in new and unimagined ways. Public art is a way of helping the citizens to enjoy where they live by revisioning the place. It’s not meant to replace daily vision with another way of seeing, but instead is like eye drops. It refreshes the act of seeing, and it is like beginning to look at the world again for the first time.

This is available to the locals who invest themselves in their city, and the visitors staying at the hotels Key Biscayne offers. Coming up soon, and under wraps right now, are new works by one of the regions most famous artists, Miami-based and Cuban-born Jose Bedia .

His extraordinary sense of place and displacement are all at work here, along with a certain gift for making the animal object into a metaphor for a spiritual and existential doorway for the viewer. The Village Art in Public Places board approved two new works that will bring the physical world back to the physical world. Cement platforms are already laid in place so that this art will be encountered by walking on it, a metaphor for a hidden discovery if there ever was one.

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