anna thirds.

The main issue that I was addressing was an abstract visual display of connecting. This theme is focused around the idea of circles representing connecting, community, unity, life, everything, cycle, etc. I wanted to shift current society’s focus on the here and now, moving more so to address the then, now and future; the world and all of its cycles that we go through: seasons, life to death, phases, trends, and whatever else have you.

Painted on the parking lot and sidewalk would be a collection of PMS300 circles that started out sparse but came together at all intersections of human interaction between bank and customer/family member. Following the idea that an individual comes into the parking lot, but joins the community while at the bank and then continues on with their drive, becoming the individual again. The specific paint that would be used would have a glow-in-the-dark feature that would then light up the lot at night, continuing the idea of always being there or your “north star.”

Sometimes, when I am out, even though I am with a group of people or simply with others, I still feel alone. I wanted to try to comfort the individual that feels alone by adding in the circular bench in the middle of the lawn area at the corner of 43rd and Main Street. The idea of sitting and reflecting is a favorite past time of mine and by giving a place to sit to not only enjoy the grassy lawn around the bench, the community mural on the Levee Shed and statues of faceless sculptures in the little park.

Faceless sculptures are just that, sculptures that do not have a face, simply a body. This could be a good photo moment, or place to dream of whom we could be like. It could be of famous people who are from the community or area, or it could simply be creatures or people from the minds of the artists who will sculpt these statues to be of woods, metals or other easily accessible durable materials.