Carousel Cosmos is on View at Portland’s Western Promenade through June of 2024.
This carousel spins the way that the earth spins when the sun sets. Come out and watch the clouds go by. Share a sunset with some animals that once roamed here.
Me and Bob on the Western Promenade, June 2023. Bob is a Protocetid, an ancestor of modern whales that lived 60 million years ago.
Thank you to everyone who made Carousel Cosmos possible, including TEMPOart, the City of Portland’s Public Art Committee, Parks & Recreations Department and their world-renowned horticulture team. Thanks To Dave Mahany for so much help building and carving the animals. Thanks to my advisory committee / painting crew, Emeric Miller and Oliver Miller.
Thank you to the animals’ sponsors: Drummond Woodsum (Whale); Gregg Lipton & Sara Crisp (Polar Bear); Maine Medical Center (Walrus); The Chappell Family Foundation (Smilodon); The David Nichols Charitable Trust (Rhyncosaur); The Horizon Foundation (Dragon); Cyrus Hagge and Jessica Tomlinson (Bob, the Protocetid).
This is another way that the carousel spins, if you run around it in a circle real fast!
Here are some more close-ups of the animals:
