"Of one
mind": 40th Street at Adeline
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Stop. And think.
Public art project
Seyed Alavi
July 14, 2005
iranian.com
A Site Specific Public Art Project for Utility
Boxes in the City of Emeryville, California
“Signs of the Times” was conceived in direct response to the location
and function of the traffic utility boxes, and uses the pedestrian stick figure
in order to present a series of poetic vignettes. This site specific project
utilizes a context familiar to the viewer, in order to present situations that
are funny, accessible and engaging.
Each artwork aims to be read as a sign, which asks
one to reflect on some of the issues surrounding the nature of
our lives as human beings. The designs for each of the seventeen
boxes were developed in collaboration with eight students from
Emeryville High School, (Taruna Aggarwal, Brittany Drummer, Alonzo
Gomez, Lisa Kuma, Sanjeshni Lata, Kevin Lazo, Jose Martinez and
Ashlee Sentman) over a period of two months. With special thanks
to Kathy Crow, the dedicated art teacher at Emeryville High School.
For more projects in the “Signs of the Times” series,
visit here2day.
Other Projects
* Flying
Carpet:
Sacramento
International Airport
* Tale
of Time: Kochi City, Japan
* Who
am I: Market Street, San Francisco
* The
Color of My Dream:
San Francisco Art Education Project
* Nature
of Life:
San Jose, California
* Un-Covering:
Emeryville, California
* Speaking
Stones:
Richmond, San Francisco
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