Public Art Installation

           

     I visited the Pogues Run rest stop location behind the Paramount School of Excellence . I walked around and observed nature, the water, the clouds overhead, the different structures surrounding the location and I tried to bring everything to a point that in my head tied it all together.

            In my searches online for connection I came across the “French curves”(tools used by artist and draftsman). It was like a revelation light bulb going off in my head.  Here were tools designed mathematically by humans to explain and to recreate everything in nature.  I studied the different designs of French curves and I began to see so many hints of things I had seen during my visits in person to the site.

            I saw a bird’s wing, I saw the wave or ripples in the water, I saw the beak of a bird, and I saw the intricate details in the architecture in the neighborhoods. These small abstract items were open to so many interpretations.

​            With these bold French curves being held up in the trees, I am hoping that the viewer will get the same inspiration that I got from them.  To see different objects in the curves that reflect the nature and neighborhood around them.  With a world that revolves around looking at a screen, at a phone, at the ground as you walk, I’m also hoping to give a reason to take a moment and stop and look up at the trees, the sky, to just reflect a moment about things around them.

Location: Back cornerside of campus

3020 Nowland Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46201