Downtown Visitacion Valley will soon have its signature art piece on the highly visible corner of Leland Ave. and Bayshore Blvd. This summer as the Leland Avenue Streetscape project nears completion Street Life, a playful sculpture made from recycled parking meter heads attached to an 18 foot steel pole arching will be erected in front of the Shun Lee Market. The public art project designed by the artist team REBAR was selected by the community during a public viewing at the Visitacion Valley branch library from September 11th through September 21, 2009; getting approved by the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) on November 2nd. On Monday, February 8th the SFAC and REBAR held a meeting at Joe Leland Coffee Shop to give the community a sneak peak at what the new art instillation will look like and solicited input on its design. According to SFAC, “The cluster of parking meters was designed to appear as if it had grown to a whimsically tall height and is intended to remind the viewer of swaying grain or other organic forms.”
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