This 111’ foot long public art piece was commissioned by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to adorn a new maintenance facility built as part of the Gold and Purple Line Extensions. Consisting of 34,000 small translucent tiles mounted on aluminum panels, it depicts the past, present and future of public transportation in Los Angeles using isometric illustrations and 16bit graphics.
An illustrator was hired to draw a variety of metro transit vehicles, which were then converted to color values using a software script. Each color value was then assigned a plastic color and the labels corresponding to each color were projected onto the aluminum panels to guide the art fabricators during assembly. The laser cut colored chips were then each riveted into place one by one.
I was the senior project manager for this project, seeing it from final approval through installation.
