High Desert Regional Health Center, Lancaster, CA.

Commissioned by the County of Los Angeles Department of Culture, this 280 foot kinetic installation is a portrait of the imagination of the people of The Antelope Valley, CA. I interviewed 300 people and presented them with a questionnaire to which they told me things like; “How would you describe your home to people from another country?”; “If you could start over what would you like to be when you grow up?”; “What is buried in the landfills of the valley?”; “What aspect of nature do you most enjoy?” etc. From each answer an icon was designed to represent the answer and a selection of 400 icons were cut, each 10 times in aluminum, in varying scales. In a random fashion, the icons where suspended in a kinetic construction, so that each icon would move gently. With a large mezzanine encircling the entire installation, the viewer can lean close to the pieces and search for the icons that represent their answers.  There is a visual game to be played as well, following the general rules of the Surrealist exquisite corpse. This installation therefore is an interactive public art piece.