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Item Riverside Roundabout: “Faces of Elysian Valley”
Created by Brian Howe & Freyja Bardell
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Riverside Roundabout: “Faces of Elysian Valley”
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Nine Stone sculptures are cut with 3D scanned faces of individuals from the surrounding community. The sculptures are sited in a remediative native landscape typical to adjacent LA River. Curb cuts in the roundabout convey stormwater coming from the bridge through a series of stormwater detention landscapes, thus intercepting runoff before it dumps into the LA River. Each series of 3 sculptures are cut from one block of stone using a technique similar to Russian nesting dolls. All “off-cuts” (typically waste) material has been arrayed in the outer ring as a boundary. The hollow inverted faces give the illusion of following you and provide an interactive experience as one goes around the roundabout, with no maintenance