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Bridging the Divide
This civic art project utilizes a Los Angeles freeway infrastructure as a conduit to connect partitioned neighborhoods and act as an embodiment of community solidarity.
As a response to the divisive world we are living in, this is an environmental installation to visually display togetherness. The concept is to replace the fencing of an existing tube style chain-link pedestrian bridge with a cross contour stainless steel sculpture, as if the fencing were two gigantic arms spanning the freeway and coming to life to form a visual hand grasp of camaraderie in the middle: A multi-perpendicular public art piece that ramps up from both sides, to be viewed from afar, driven under, and experienced within. This utilitarian walking bridge would be turned into an iconic symbol, elevating the space into an art experience rather than just a functional thorough-way.