Back on campus after
lunch, I was out doing errands and decided to stop and shoot a few pictures.
First up is a view of the relatively new sculpture installation by Maya Lin,
Timetable (2000). Timetable was installed in front of the new David Packard
Electrical Engineering Building as part of the 75th Anniversary Celebration
for the School of Engineering in the fall of 2000. Maya is best known for
having designed the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington DC. As Maya was a
lecturer at Stanford, you can read more about here at this site http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/lin/.
Apparently, this sculpture is part of a series of 'water tables' she has
been doing, this one composed of a 16-ton chunk of black granite containing
a multi-time-zoned clock, from which one can read Pacific Standard Time,
Pacific Daylight Time and Greenwich Mean Time.
The Stanford Magazine did a nice write-up about the piece, too, though
somewhat surprisingly, they dodged the issue of the artist's own description
of the work. Here's a link to the write-up:
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2001/janfeb/farmreport/news_sports.html#art
Walking back towards Fairchild along Serra Mall from the Timetable sculpture,
I stopped to shoot several images of the cement wall of the Paul Allen Center
for Integrated Systems. For some odd reason, the narrow strip between the
building and the sidewalk has been planted as a sort of swamp, populated
mainly by thousands and thousands of horsetail ferns.
The constant flow of water necessary to support these aquatic plants has
stimulated the growth of green algae or lichen on the concrete wall of the
Allen building, their shadow greens climbing slowly from ground level up
towards the top of the wall. At present, most of the green lies within three
feet of the ground, but I imagine that in a century or two the wall will
be entirely green, provided that the entire structure is still standing.
Last but not least, another installment in the Hole series. Lookin' good,
eh?
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