CULVER CITY CURRENCY (2009)

Mobile with lenticular LED panels
Public Art, Westfield Culver City, CA

The word "currency" suggests circulation and exchange, two phenomena characteristic of a shopping center. Culver City Currency, made for Westfield Culver City, plays with the ancient tradition of the coin as a locus for both cultural heroes and architectural icons. Lenticular lightboxes in the form of coins hang from a mobile structure. The lenticular panels literally collapse the "sides" of the coins, blurring them into a single animated impression.

The artwork operates at two scales. When viewed from the entry points to the atrium, the visitor sees the entire mobile. When seen from the balcony around the space, the visitor is able to examine the individual portraits in greater detail. Culver City Currency gives monumental presence to portraits of ordinary people living and working in Culver City. The portraits of residents, and the architecture of the city are always seen in relation to each other, and always in a state of transition.

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