Flying
carpet
Public art projects
Seyed Alavi
June 21, 2005
iranian.com
Seyed Alavi received a Bachelor of Science degree
from San Jose State University and a Masters of Fine Art from the
San Francisco Art Institute. Alavi’s work is often engaged
with the poetics of language and space and their power to shape
reality.
He has created site-specific installations for The New Museum of
Contemporary Art and Franklin Furnace in New York City; The University
Art Museum-Cal State Long Beach; The Museum of Santa Cruz County;
The deSaisset Museum; The University Art Museum, Sonoma State; The
University Art Museum, Cal State San Bernadino and San Francisco's
Capp Street Project. These images are from his site, here2day. Flying Carpet
Sacramento
International Airport
This project consists of an aerial view of the Sacramento River
that is woven into a carpet for the floor of a pedestrian bridge
connecting the terminal to the parking garage. This image represents
approximately 50 miles of the Sacramento River starting just
outside of Colusa, California and ending about 6 miles south
of Chico.
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on image to see 49
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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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