Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- Fortunately for you, a new art installation is on display in Columbia and if you're walking down Main Street, you can't miss it.
"I wanted to stay away from giant cookies because i feel like the fortunes are more special," local artist Jonathan Brilliant says.
For the last ten years, Brilliant has collected small pearls of wisdom from fortune cookies.
"This is something we know, we hold in our hand, it's tiny, I mean I have a few fortunes in my wallet, I have a jar full at home but then to see it shifted in scale, to something we can't handle in our hands anymore is a wonderful sense of displacement," Brilliant says.
The winner of the Columbia Design League's "Play with your City" competition, Brilliant can uncross his fingers.
"There's that little splotch underneath the smiley face, you'll see that reproduced, on the full scale," he says.
Brilliant's large scale fortunes will be a reality.
"I found it amusing that fortune cookie fortunes kind of looked like these small sculptures I thought wouldn't it be nice if we just blew some up and put them in a park and so here we are whatever it is six months later we've blown them up and put them in a park," Brilliant says.
He's drawing attention to green space, positive messages and the meaning of art.
"I think they're kind of like the ultimate work of art in that they're this valueless piece of paper that's been baked inside of a cookie and yet people prize them, the same way that a painting or a print is just ground up pigment on cotton or fiber but it becomes a piece of art," Brilliant says. "This one here as an example it says you have a keen sense of humor and love a good time I think you have to understand the whole project is meant to be a little bit humorous."
The art installation will be on display through June 20 on the corner of Main St. and Lady St.