Schisms
Steve was asked
to work with a major pedestrian entryway into a large apartment complex
in Sunnyvale, CA. The client wanted a piece which would be visible to automobile
traffic as well as enhancing the experience of entering the site on foot. |
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Schisms has the scale and the drama to be a significant
element of the busy intersection, it is even more present for
the pedestrians who walk through the series of cleaved boulders
that act as a transition between the traffic, noise and home.
Graduating
down in size from heroic to human scale,
each pair is
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Trinity
Trinity
was designed for a church entry plaza.
The
long vertical axis of the cross is in alignment with the main
doors and altar. We wanted to both draw people into the
religious community, as well as to extend the iconography beyond
the doors. The vertical axis culminates at a large boulder.
There are two additional boulders forming the Christian Trinity,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit. River rock radiates from
the boulders outward, connecting the cross and boulders in the
right quadrant.
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The
boulders as well as the raised horizontal section of the cross
keep the energy focused and provide a gathering place for parishioners
between the church and the parking area.
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Skyballs
The
site is a steep rolling hill behind which are a series of soccer
and ball fields. The skyballs appear to be rolling down the
hill; their movement, color and form offering a sense of humor
and playfulness despite their massive scale. The balls appear
to emerge from a grid of trees planted at the top of the hill,
giving them a mysterious origin. As the trees mature this sense
will be enhanced.
This
is an example of using the entire site. The work is visible
from the county road and serves as a landmark as well as an
interactive hill sculpture.
The
major effect of this work is visceral, immediate and playful.
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The
California Veterans' Memorial
The
California Veterans' Memorial stands under the old trees
of the California State Capitol Park, which surrounds the State’s
Capitol Building. We felt the memorial needed to be formal,
timeless, and of sufficient scale to both solemnize, and celebrate
the efforts and sacrifices of the veterans and yet it needed
to fit into the gentler ambiance of the park. To accomplish
this we used the formal obelisk shape for the memorial and then
photo-etched images of veterans onto the reflective black surface.
These
images are of soldiers: at war; during peace; their families
and friends; their lives. Our intention was to construct a snapshot
of the whole experience of being in the service.
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Bay Bench
Bay Bench
illustrates
an approach to a site that relates not only to its urban setting but also
to the historic architecture of the pier. Steve started with the basic
nature of the pier as a plane above a body of water and amplified that
element by opening up the decking and framing the action of the water below. |
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emphasize the historic nature of the pier he used bronze
grillwork that references both old hatch covers and cobbles
of the streets of San Francisco in their undulating surfaces.
Bay
Bench provides a formal inviting entryway to the pier,
supplies the entry plaza with seating and gives people
an opportunity to experience the water of the bay visible
through the bronze grillwork.
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Vertical
Parking
Vertical
Parking was a
temporary
installation for downtown Oakland designed to call attention
to the problem of parking congestion due to solo occupant
commuter cars. The sculpture came with an authentic-looking
sign
giving the phone number for a ride share hot line.
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