Uncovering the Strata of the City
When installed, this land art will bring a different awareness to the known environment of the city. It will bring together very different minds and connect them through a technological platform. It will change peoples’ perspective on the ground plane they are walking on in their daily lives forever and educating about the inner workings of the city.
This project will take a series of slabs from sidewalks around a given city and excavate them in an archeological fashion. The process is the most important part, test pits will be made in the sidewalk. I will remove all filler materials and leave exposed the pipes, wires, roots and structure underneath. Then using a material such as plexiglass I will cap off these pit so people can walk across them. For a person coming upon a piece of this art this empty space will be enough of a difference to cause them to asses what’s there.
Layered onto the tactile experience of this art installation is an added informational piece. An interactive identification of what was uncovered can deepen understanding of what runs underneath their feet everyday. There would be an online site created where people could post their own pictures and experiences, as well as discuss these art pieces.
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