2005 • Delmar Station, Pasadena, California

Kinetic Energy is a huge series of fences, doors, railings, and medallions on a tower at Delmar Station, which is a light rail station embedded in a 2 block square development featuring 5 buildings, 350 apartments, retail, and underground parking.

My artwork ties the structures and public spaces together, while preventing access to the train tracks that run through the middle of it all. It took 3 of us working full time for 2 years to build and install over 550 feet of fence, along with larger decorative panels and doors, and 4 large bronze and glass decorative medallions on the central tower.

I devised a vocabulary of forms, based on historic industrial design and locomotive parts, with art deco motifs suggested by the rich heritage of downtown pasadena, and classic blacksmithing techniques.

Nothing repeats- the alphabet of curves and twists and rivets was composed as we went along to form a song, a sentence, a drawn line of cursive in metal.

Made from Stainless Steel and Bronze, with extensive hand forging.