SAFETY SPIRES 2007
Sound Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance Facility, Seattle WA
This collaborative project designed and executed with artist Dan Corson celebrates the overhead catenary poles for the light rail maintenance facility. By painting them and adding pointed tips to most of the poles, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. The pattern is abstracted from horsetails, a prehistoric plant still viable in this area today, and creates a field of green within this industrial area. Approximately 130 poles were given the special treatment.
Paint, formed acrylic
130 poles of varied heights widths within facility
Sound Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance Facility, Seattle WA
This collaborative project designed and executed with artist Dan Corson celebrates the overhead catenary poles for the light rail maintenance facility. By painting them and adding pointed tips to most of the poles, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. The pattern is abstracted from horsetails, a prehistoric plant still viable in this area today, and creates a field of green within this industrial area. Approximately 130 poles were given the special treatment.
Paint, formed acrylic
130 poles of varied heights widths within facility