SFO
International Terminal
Gate G level 3
Post TSA
Shining Paths: San Francisco’s Sister Cities 2006 by Lewis Desoto
16 Derkson projectors, lamps and gobo light gels
68 in. in diameter.
This work in its entirety consists of 16 light projections (divided between boarding areas A and G) that celebrate San Francisco’s Sister Cities around the world. The work is an extension of the artist’s On the Air project, located on the floor of the international terminal arrivals lobby. Here, each Sister City is represented by the aeronautical map for its airport, overlaid with the image of the city flower.
The cities depicted in terminal G consist of : San Francisco Taipei, Osaka, Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh, Tessalonika, Zurich and Assisi.
Desoto received his Master of Fine Arts, at Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA., 1981. and his Bachelor of Arts at University of California, Riverside, 1978.
The artists statement:
“Shining Paths” extends the work “On The Air,” 2000 at SFIA by combining pilot’s maps and medieval botanical illustrations to depict San Francisco Sister Cities. Each map is keyed to that city’s airport and each flower is related to a declared city flower or famous local specimen. The imagery combines the scientific certitude of the maps with the romantic illustration of the flower. A Derksen projector mounted on the ceiling passes a light through a glass etched “gobo” on an area of the terrazzo floor in each terminal.
I wonder how many people notice them or pay attention to them?