Immediately, Richard Serra came to mind…….
Richard Serra is a sculptor known for his site-specific, large-scaled, assemblies of sheet metal becoming canyon-like walls, dwarfing the individual. And that was exactly what I felt when we came to this. The walls of steel, curving and undulating had an organic flow that initially blocked a direct view of what’s ahead, and its scale dwarfed me.
It was our first time there, so it felt like an mini-discovery every time we went from one point to another. And I liked that a lot. Maybe the novelty wears off over time, but I really like the paths or “corridors” revealing what’s ahead as one moves towards it—instead of just a straight line from one point to another. It causes one to engage in one’s surrounding, instead of mindlessly going from one place to another. I like that!
(Channeling my inner Chaplin…)
As we continued, it becomes more industrial and less botanical, while just being on the other side of the premises. It begins to feel completely different. More and more sci-fi….
