Look up for art

Sunday, November 5, 2006 | 12:00 a.m. CST; updated 6:12 p.m. CDT, Thursday, July 17, 2008
BY Photos and story ALYCIA LEWIS

Behind the colorful awnings and elegant window displays of the shops and restaurants in downtown Columbia, more subtle beauty can be found. A collection of colors, shapes and textures in the narrow alleys come together to form an urban gallery. A tangled web of electrical wires, an endless grid of reflective metal stairs, a collage of stickers representing the rainbow and a green velvety mold on the surface of a drain pipe, are just a few of the things that make the alleys a display of art. All you have to do is look up.

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Green mold grows up a pipe in the alley behind Gotcha on Tenth Street.

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