Medusa!
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover:
It’s that time again! The Indiana State Fair is an annual celebration of Hoosier pride, farming, food, and 4-H, with amusement park rides, cooking demos, concerts by musicians either nearly or formerly popular, and farm animals competing for cash prizes without their knowledge. My wife Anne and I attend each year as a date-day to seek new forms of creativity and imagination within a local context…
Our State Fair may have ended last Sunday, but I’m not finished with it yet! Admittedly, attending the fair and Fan Expo Chicago a week apart was perhaps a bit much. Nevertheless, we’re going into (hopefully) a much more relaxing weekend that’ll give me the free time and mental space to tie up some loose ends…starting with two more State Fair photo galleries.
Anne and I are at that age when we’re more interested in visiting the exhibit halls than we are in rattling our bones on the Midway rides. We enjoy seeing what new works of paint, photography, building blocks, and science have been offered up for the various competitions. The State Fair holds its massive celebrations on behalf of our farmers, but Indiana has no shortage of artists, either. Whether adults or kids, the illustrators come from all demographics, work in multiple media, and bring ideas from pop culture as well as from their own influence and home life. They each contribute in their own ways to the Hoosier State hometown legacy.
A glass Ursula by Ashley Smith, the same artist as last year’s glass Deadpool.
Stained glass Mickey!
Dumbo at cruising altitude.
Disney World’s 50th anniversary gets a homemade wall hanging.
Spider-Man vs. the Spot!
Miles Morales, also Spider-Man!
Spider-Punk! The breakout MVP of last year’s Across the Spider-Verse.
Grogu gets a teddy bear, or vice versa.
Tiny Star Destroyer and Death Star II models.
Din Djarin borrowing Tony Stark’s tux and occasional identity crisis.
Neytiri from the world of Avatar!
Appa from the other world of Avatar!
A Muppet and a pinata of Bluey’s kid sister Bingo. Special thanks to the toddler who ran past the display pointing and yelling, “BINGO!”, which saved me some research.
Pinky and the Brain!
Joan of Arc or maybe Eowyn.
Definitely Gimli!
Warhol’s Universal Monsters!
Three witches, pick your mythos.
Twister!
Sorry, I mean Twisters!
Impressionist Speedway!
That parable in the Apocrypha when baby Jesus cut his first fart.
Earth bleeds.
Far-north Native girl and a husky — by Todd Prince, same artist as in our lead photo.
Poor four-eyed doggo, no one wants to play poker with him.
Chess match at the stop-motion puppet park.
Wildebeest hunting trophy.
Abstract waves.
What if cows could offer other beverages besides boring old milk?
Gratuitous Taylor Swift art!
A realist’s inspirational song-lyric quote from Academy Award Nominee Dolly Parton.
To be concluded! Other chapters in this very special miniseries:
Part 1: Our “Taste of the Fair” Tour
Part 2: Let’s Pretend We’re Influencers
Part 3: Where the Art Museum Meets the Chainsaw
Part 4: Land of the Glowing Giants
Part 5: Food for Displaying, Not Devouring
Part 6: The Year in Lego
Part 7: The Year in Antiques
Part 9: The Rest of Our Day
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