
colette crutcher
artwork made by hand
Colette Crutcher’s mosaic mural, titled Playthings of the Wind, located in the playground of the new Chinatown Recreation Center, honors China’s 2000-year tradition of kite making.
The mural depicts a young child, in traditional dress, holding a string attached to a butterfly kite, which is joined among the swirling clouds and sun by two other kites in the form of a “flying lizard” and bat.
The mural continues onto an adjacent wall with a depiction of a dragon kite.

dragon face (detail)
little girl
flying lizard
dragon face (detail)
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Playthings of the Wind
2010
Masson St. & Washington St.,
San Francisco,
California
Chinese Recreational center
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