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Shadow Kingdom 2016, Artist: Adriane Colburn, Painted steel and granite, At Dagget Plaza, Mission Bay, San Francisco, California
This artwork inspired by the history of Mission Bay, a 5,000 year-old tidal marsh that was once the habitat of a rich array of flora and fauna. Growth of the city in the 19th century brought shipyards, warehouses and railroads and this part of the bay was eventually filled with sand and dirt from nearby development, as well as debris from the 1906 earthquake. The five panels that form Shadow Kingdom evoke this layered history. [from a plaque at the location] |
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The fourth panel also showed a cityscape, this one with the moon low on the horizon.
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The sculpture faced both the street and the park. New apartments rose beyond the plaza, and flowers bloomed in the foreground.
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The panels that formed the sculpture, faced in different directions. Thus it could be appreciated from the sidewalk or from the plaza.
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One panel showed animals alongside a creek near a fallen log at sunset.
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Another panel showed birds and other animals in an abstract forest.
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The third panel showed an abstract cityscape with just a thin wedge of sunlight visible at sunset.
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A sign described the sculpture. Sadly, the first name of the artist had been scratched out.
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The last panel showed birds perched in trees over a forest through which a handsome stag watched.
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A beaver held a twig.
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A fish swam through the forest.
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A shore bird with two too many legs.
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A bird sought food inside a tree on the other side of which the sun shown.
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