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My Work - A Corporate Commssion |
At left, is an installation shot of a piece I did for Pacific Gas and
Electric. This bronze and granite sculpture is in the lobby of the
Distribution Business Unit of the company at 123 Mission Street
in San Francisco. This is a far more complex piece than the River
Falls sculpture. It is composed of three different entwined bronze
elements on a red granite base. The site is a crossroads for
employees, few of the general public pass thru. I was asked to
come up with a piece that symbolized the ideals and structure of
the company, its
employees, customers,
and stockholders.
The materials used are traditional and solid, an image the client felt worth the investment. The piece reminds me of a sailboat and seemed appropriate to "Pacific". The client sought a piece to use as a focus for allegories. They wanted something to represent their company, employees and stockholders bound together by the needs of the market, consumers. I proposed the smooth lower element for the physical plant, the stockholders investment; the rough beaten bronze repoussé surfaces as symbolic of the potential of the market, consumers; topped by the interwoven individual strands of a bronze fabric to represent the employees in concert. The various elements have come to mean a quest for excellence, smooth and polished surfaces; untapped potentials, the rough and as quarried surfaces; and teamwork, woven portions. |