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.
"Fallen Angel": Powell
Street at Watergate
Click
on image to see 17
Click on image to see 17
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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