Resistance

DATE: November 2024
LOCATION: Del Rio Trail, Sacramento, CA
CLIENT: The City of Sacramento / Cal Trans
MEDIUM: stone, railway

A kilometer south of "And Then . . .", along the same rail line, is "Resistance".  A 9' x 5' x 4', 15,000 lb boulder, is dropped directly upon the decommissioned tracks. A feather image is ground and polished into its surface. “Resistance” references many layers of the site. It marks a reclamation of nature over industry in the micro and macro - specifically celebrating the creation of the Del Rio Trail itself, and serving as a living monument to our long journey towards a collective green future. With "And Then . . .", the entire three-quarter-mile trail section becomes a singular site-work and experience,  a journey of sky to ground, past to future.

"Resistance. And Then . . . " was created within a greater studio inquiry  entitled "Hope is a thing of feathers . . ." – a biomimetic re-engineering and re-creation of feathers as living calligraphic gestures in architectural scale. A culturally transcendent form and image, the intention is to create a universal visual language of civic poetics that can echo forces larger than ourselves — a tumbling swarm of feathers in a single global wind. "Hope . . ." represents decades of inquiry and practice – minimal gesture, maximum impact.