Portland, Oregon, is living up to its reputation as an alternative-culture mecca with this new city-wide art commission: "The Acupuncture Project." The website (full of pretty images of locations with 23-food-tall "needles" stuck in them) explains the project:
"Think of the city as a body the way traditional Chinese medicine does-- not only as a physical entity but also as a system of energy that flows in distinct pathways called meridians. The energy, or Qi, needs to be in balance. If a person's Qi is out of balance, disease can set in. The same could be true for a city. This project explores the junction between art, regional planning, the environment, Asian medicine and the health of a city."
