Memory & Vision----Completion of the Commission 2024
Project site:
Broad Street Festival Block/ Boise, ID
Funded by:
City of Boise Department of Arts & History
Dimensions:
10'3"W x 8'-9"H x 2'D
Description:
Inscribed artforms evoke both the people and places---then and now---who inhabited the Central Addition, through residential, industrial and technological form-languages rising up through sidewalks.
The project design is composed of two sculptural forms located on the northeast and northwest corners of Broad Street at the intersections of 5th and 6th streets. The sculptural forms serve as entry bookends to the block and feature historic interpretive information focusing on past businesses, places, people and occupations that have since been erased from the physical realm of the Central Addition. The main components of the sculptures are composed of weathering steel, inscribed with place names that together represent fragments of lost architecture. These architectural fragments are supported by translucent panels whose purposes are to communicate trades and avocations that supported the neighborhood throughout its history and current times. Within the architectural openings, both historic and educational information is presented to establish context of events that shaped the neighborhood. The project will serve as a visual marker to draw viewers into and along the Broad Street corridor and provide interpretive information about the history.
of the Central Addition.
Constructed of sand-blasted concrete, laser-cut aluminum and CorTen steel, inscribed acrylic resin panels, mirror-polished stainless steel.