East Carnegie Library, Lightlines, public art commissioned by the City of San Jose Public Art Commission, CA, 2006-2009.
East Carnegie Library, Birds in Flight, public art commissioned by the City of San Jose Public Art Commission, CA, 2006-2009.
East Carnegie Library, Lightlines, detail, public art commissioned by the City of San Jose Public Art Commission, CA, 2006-2009.
East Carnegie Library, Lightlines, detail, public art commissioned by the City of San Jose Public Art Commission, CA, 2006-2009.
East Carnegie Library, Lightlines, detail, public art commissioned by the City of San Jose Public Art Commission, CA, 2006-2009.
East Carnegie Library, Lightlines, detail, public art commissioned by the City of San Jose Public Art Commission, CA, 2006-2009.
East Carnegie Library, Birds in Flight, public art commissioned by the City of San Jose Public Art Commission, CA, 2006-2009.
East Carnegie Library, Birds in Flight, public art commissioned by the City of San Jose Public Art Commission, CA, 2006-2009.
East Carnegie Library, Birds in Flight, public art commissioned by the City of San Jose Public Art Commission, CA, 2006-2009.
Lightlines at the East Carnegie Library San Jose, CA
Artwork commissioned by The City of San Jose Public Art Program for a modern addition to the original East Carnegie Library in the East Santa Clara neighborhood, on permanent view from Fall 2009. Lightlines is a ceiling hung reflective light sculpture comprised of powder-coated aluminum coils in a lustrous pale green, punctuated with laser cut iridescent “edge light” acrylic calligraphic forms which are transparent on the clear surface, but brilliantly colored on the hand scored light lines and edge cuts. These descending images are attached to endpoints of “star” formed aluminum rods, each star with 16 end points…
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... The sculpture unfolds across the ceiling, in and around the structural trusses, from the library entry through the entry hallway to an elaborated sculptural cascade at the axis of an East/West hall, still in line of sight of the entry. The installation will also include a dimensional wall bird collage, Birds in Flight, for the children’s area, thereby bringing the natural elements of the outdoor environment - the neighborhood’s abundant bird life- inside. The primary bird images bounce surrounding light shadows from hidden LED lighting. The East Carnegie Calligraphy forms are of local birds taken from "The Great Backyard Bird Count" of San Jose, an annual national project to track local species and leaves of native trees of East Santa Clara street. Other images are of building facades and the Carnegie Library itself.