How to Keep Our Own Art Display in Fremont
by Kirby Lindsay Laney, posted 1 September 2015
An builder rendering of the proposed Cubix Fremont building, without the fine art installation beingness developed by Haddad|Drugan. Drawing provided by Jackson|Master Architecture
The artist team Haddad|Drugan, are delighted to be able to create another of their site-specific public art installations in their hometown. "We practice projects all over the country," explained Laura Haddad, "the opportunity to do a project in a neighborhood where we both in one case lived, in Fremont, with no travel and we get to hang out in Fremont," is a gamble both feel fortunate to have drawn when they were chosen, from twoscore+ artist'due south applications, for creating fine art for the Cubix Fremont building.
On September 9thursday (from 4p – 7p,) the 10thursday (from 4p – 7p) & the 12th (from 10a – 1p) Haddad|Drugan, along with representatives from King Canton 4Culture, will be standing at the Fremont PCC Natural Market place, soliciting input from genuine Fremonsters – residents, employees, state lords, shoppers, business owners, and/or standard bearers. Anyone who considers Fremont the heart of their universe is asked to come share their story, and show off their mementos, souvenirs, photographs or keepsakes, to help Haddad and her married man (and artistic partner,) Tom Drugan, to understand what Fremont means to us.
Artists Laura Haddad and Tom Drugan during a inquiry trip around Fremont in September '15. Photo by K. Lindsay Laney
"I'k positive we aren't going to incorporate anybody's ideas," Haddad acknowledged. "We do a lot of enquiry, it's a big part of our procedure," she explained, "Nosotros'll filter it through our own artistic vision." The finished art piece of work, to be incorporated in the façade of the mixed commercial/apartment edifice proposed for 3519 Fremont Place North, will be a fixed visual of our community for decades to come up. The more people share with Drugan and Haddad, the more probable the artists will have their hopes realized. "It will become a symbol," Haddad said, "We hope it will become an icon."
The Artists Without A Plan
Since 2001, Haddad and Drugan accept been working together to create public fine art pieces. Collaboration is key to the fine art piece of work they do – working with landscape architects or, in the example of Cubix Fremont, the architects Jackson|Primary and developers Parkstone Backdrop, in improver to 4Culture.
"All of our projects are dissimilar," Haddad observed, and a glance at the pieces displayed on their website shows the diversity that Drugan identified by emphasizing the site-specificity of their work. "It'south based on the particular place," he said. Too, "nosotros don't have cloth choices," he explained. They work with fabricators which allows them to utilize a vast variety of mediums including bronze, glass or stainless steel.
One of the fine art pieces incorporated into the mural of Fremont Peak Park by artist Laura Haddad. Photo provided by Haddad|Drugan
Laura Haddad has done a previous, large art installation for Fremont – the award-winning fine art of Fremont Summit Park. Working with Friends of Peak Park, as well every bit the architects of GGLO, Haddad created art incorporated within the holding that showed creativity (a silver skein of ribbon leading the mode in or out of the Minotaur's maze,) and practicality (a solstice sundial and a map of the phases of the moon.)
For Cubix Fremont, Haddad|Drugan don't have a plan in identify, still. "We've kept it pretty open," Drugan said of the proposal that won them the contract. "We oasis't divers it yet," Haddad agreed. They could employ textures, lighting, local glass, or fifty-fifty paints. "We look for durable materials," Haddad said, as they put together a piece that can suffer, similar so many of Fremont's favorite icons.
Communities With Stories To Tell
"There are and so many icons of Fremont," Haddad explained, "that don't necessarily take a connection to Fremont." The Fremont Rocket, Saturn and the Lenin statue, which will surroundings Cubix Fremont, take become intrinsic within the cloth of Fremont, merely all were adopted into our culture. "The [Fremont] Troll might be what people identify with," Haddad observed, about the potential effect of their research, and outreach, "but we aren't going to put the Troll on the building."
If the Fremont Troll is the penultimate paradigm of Fremont for y'all, let the Cubix Fremont artists know for their, hopefully, iconic sculpture for our neighborhood. Photograph by K. Lindsay Laney, May 'eleven
Haddad and Drugan intend an original art slice, but they desire to collect stories from locals and filter their vision through that data. The artists currently work in SODO, but both accept lived in Fremont and have their own memories hither. Haddad shared her own favorite anecdote – of a Native American poet who went door-to-door ane twenty-four hour period selling his poems, and came to her home. "Nosotros spent an afternoon talking," she recalled the notwithstanding poignant memory, "I wonder what happened to him…"
The long-lost Garden Of Everyday Miracles, an art installation of modern appliances, equipment and kitsch 'planted' on a hillside behind GlamOrama boutique, likewise stirs Drugan and Haddad's imaginations – along with the metal bride & groom that local legend Charlotte Buchanan put exterior each twenty-four hour period in front of her iconic store.
Maybe an prototype from Fremont's by – like the GlamOrama Bride & Groom – captures the character of this community for you. Photo provided by Laura Haddad, of Haddad|Drugan
"We simply want to talk," Haddad explained. They've collected for two time capsules, in Kent (Millennium Plaza,) messages and memories from local folks to share with the future. In the San Francisco Bayview neighborhood they gathered up words from people that lived and worked in that location, Drugan explained, "to get a sense of what was important to them." The artists distilled the words they collected and chose the one they thought almost often used being 'rise,' and they created an illuminated mural that incorporates rising imagery.
'Whatsoever We Get'
"We're just getting started," Haddad said, "if no i shows upward, that volition be unfortunate." It is a risk they are willing to take, on the possibility of gathering priceless, heart-felt truths about the customs hither. "Nosotros might just meet people who didn't know we were going to exist there…" she best-selling, "We'll have any we become."
If everyone in Fremont spreads the discussion, however, and brings that piece on their refrigerator, in their curio cabinet or stored carefully in the box of treasures under the bed, Haddad and Drugan could spend their time at PCC snapping photos and noting inspirations to create an fine art slice representative of the spirit of our community.
An epitome from deep in Fremont'southward by – a make like those put on logs by loggers earlier sending them to the mill. Photo by Urban Tree Salve
Please brand an endeavor to journey to the PCC on Midweek, September 9th, Thursday, September 10th, or Saturday, September 12th, with fifty-fifty a discussion or two for these local artists, to inspire iconic art for our future.
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