Instructions:
Create order to a chaotic site by using color, texture and spacing.
My site was the site of the unbuilt San Diego New Main Library (Park Blvd and J Street), currently it is an empty lot covered in tan dirt and clay.
Synopsis: The intent of my intervention has two aspects: the first is to engage passengers and pedestrians as they travel around the site by providing unique colors, patterns. The second intent is intended to critical jab to the City of San Diego for it's back seat stance on getting the library built.
Overview: triangular shaped poles are to be driven deep into the ground on the site, and arranged in a circular pattern with many layers toward the interior.
Triangular shaped poles will provide for three different "canvases". Meaning that an image can be seen on three different sides of the poles when seen in the right perspective.
Each pole will be painted a portion of an overall composition (different on all three sides) so that from a distance one can vaguely se a distorted image until they are standing or pass by a point in the sidewalk where all the individual images on all the poles align to allow the overall composition come into perspective. It is then that the person passing by will see the whole image.
Seen form the East (top of board): a red background contrasts the backdrop of the city and within the poles are various shapes and patterns that come into perspective at varying points on the sidewalk.
Seen from the West (middle of the board): a white background provides a serene environment that contrasts the sky, and within the poles an image of the outline of the library that is supposed to be built on the site.
Seen from the South (bottom of the board): an abstract image of red bubbles rising out of the site can be seen, intended to convey the funky flavor of the East Village.
