noda is not like any place anywhere it
makes me think of this quote by henry
david thoreau where he says it's not
what you're looking at that matters it's
public art within the public
transportation system has this great
impact because people are gathering
together our involvement with the
project covers a couple of different
areas the concept involves a lot of our
own subjective poetic interpretation of
the area because we've been here for
over 30 years we have the small T mosaic
being hand-cut small T which is a
material that historically has been used
in some of the most amazing ancient
buildings and then we have the
windscreens there's one that Paul design
in there too that I design and the
station itself the kind of the shelters
one of the things that we really wanted
to bring to the station in terms of
concept was the idea of color we chose a
bright red as our station color and
because we wanted to signify that our
neighborhood is different than any other
place of City Roots work is is more I
think intuitive and more colorful and it
embraces a kind of a different dialogue
my work pretty much focuses on
environmental issues so I really wanted
to bring some organic natural elements
into the hard surface of the station and
really soften it up a little bit i would
say that mine is probably more masculine
and more of a technical approach to
things and then we also for myself have
a granite bench that i'm working on as
well working in granted is a is a
terrible thing for anybody to
it's it's very hard it's very durable
it's a very grueling process the
material is from North Carolina it's
it's called Mount Airy white one of the
things that everybody's excited about is
you know the light rail opening the
anticipation for that public
transportation also can play a really
strong role in educating the public
about the arts so it's a it's a good
jumping-off point for people to be