Lots of the animals in the city are often symbolic in nature, living their live as mascots, brand logos, and the like. As we see with our various Chicago sports teams, Bulls, the Bears, to Cubs - we are up to our ears in animal icons.
Thankfully though mythical animals also make appearances as well - if we are going to get so behind the idea of animals perhaps even more than animals themselves, they might as be fantastic, animate, and thousands of years old. So enter the dragons at Chinese New Year. I captured this one lat weekend walking down at Cermak and Wentworth - dancing its fancy dance and being all big and crazy. What's not wonderful about them? I'd be curious what the pigeons make of these beasts, the only ones (besides police horses?) that get serious right-of-way in the streets.
Of course it is Year of the Ox, and I think particularly how Sydney decided to trick out their bovine imagery to have that city sensibility, all 70's neon like.
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