Dodecadandy | Part 2

Public art is a lot different from the art that solely comes out of the artist's expression, the art for the artist's sake, let's say. Public art is a different thing. Public art has to take public audience into account first. It needs to take widest visual symbols, it needs to be understanding and responsive and conscientious about the public first and primarily. The work can't be cynical, it has to be visually tantalizing and it has to then have a series of meanings that can be gleaned. Hopefully the largest meaning, the most obvious one, those are the ones that are expressed first in public art. Then more rarified and intellectualized sets of understanding come into play.

So working on something like this really for the artist gives the feeling of thinking about the public, thinking about communicating, putting oneself in the eyes of the public, what does another person think or see and imagining the space completely revised. 

When we first got to this space it was a cold day in November and we were looking at it and it was sad. It didn't inspire us at first because it was so bleak and had no symbols whatsoever. And now we're quite happy to add meaning, placehood, symbols and a story to a site that didn't have one before. 

Have you heard Part 1?

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