Stainless Steel - Recycled Metal - Acrylic
Project Location: 6700 Alameda St. Huntington Park, Ca 90021
This modular 3 piece sculpture was designed to be visually exciting to the eye as well as carry on a theme which represents Union Central Cold Storage's company history as an ice making and cold storage facility. The design is based on one of the basic crystalline structures of ice, which is hexagonal. The use of materials, stainless steel and colored art glass, are used to represent the reflective, translucent, and prismatic character inherent to this material (ice). The glass panels are located on the top faces of all 3 sculptures. As the daylight passes thru, they create patterns and interesting shadows within the interior of each sculpture- which change as the day progresses. There are "windows", or "cutaways" on the facade of the stainless steel sculptures, which reveal machine parts, gears, tubing, as well as other parts that were taken from Union Central's old ice making building at the old building location. All these recycled parts were used in the creation of ice, or refrigeration. Many of the parts are over 100 years old and rusted and worn, providing an interesting juxtaposition from the sleek and reflective outside surface. The underlying theme is the "old within the new" or "the parts make the whole."
The sculpture is designed to be safe for public areas. Welds and sharp edges of metal corners and other areas are rounded and ground smooth to prevent any possibility of injury.
