Jun 012011
Tutubi Plaza
Russ street, between Natoma and Minna in SOMA, San Francisco.
This is a San Francisco Redevelopment project, first proposed in 2008 it was finally finished in February of 2011. This pavement installation is by Jovi Schnell. Jovi was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas and lives in San Francisco, she studied at the San Francisco Art Institute as well as some serious time at several art schools in Holland. This piece is called “Evolves Luminous Flora”. In reading about this piece here there are so many meanings and symbolism according to the author, that I got lost in that and decided to just enjoy the piece.
It is put down through a process called street print, which is a thermoplastic surfacing system. Apparently they first reheat the asphalt pavement then imprint the asphalt pavement with a template made from 3/8” flexible wire rope. The patterns are then hand painted with a high grade polyurethane compound. That I would have enjoyed watching.
Looking back towards Howard Street.
This piece was commissioned by the SFAC for a price not to exceed $15,000.
2018 Update
The street furniture and bollards have been removed and the street is no longer a pedestrian street. The damage is quite obvious.
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