Glass, stainless, LED lights, infra-red camera, 2010
Commissioned by San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs
Map resides in the new San Jose Police Substation, south of downtown, in former orchard fields. The concept of the piece is to depict the place which the Police Department serves, Silicon Valley, and its principal vehicular paths, as well as who is being served: the people of San Jose.
At 10' x 36' in dimension, the landscape of San Jose is depicted on the large lobby entry wall via a series of slump-glass panels which express the textures of the urban, suburban, mountain and wetland areas of Silicone Valley.
The roadways used by the Police Department are prominently depicted via applied color and texture. The glass is, in turn, animated via 4" on center LED lights behind, which capture the colorful heat signature of any person - or mammal - who comes into the lobby of the Substation. Slightly larger than life size, the shape, movement, and posture of citizens of San Jose is projected real-time in this important civic space, thereby animating the glass depiction of place. Thus, people and place are captured in an inextricable relationship - each one enlivening the other.
Glass fabricated by AGA, Louisville, KY
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