Today I spent some time wandering campus looking for work. I came across a building near the library, and, while taking some photographs had an idea spring into my head. I'm an Economics major, and last semester I took a Transportation Economics course at VCU. In urban environments, cycling to and from class, work, and even to the bodega near your house is typically faster, healthier, and more convenient than taking your car everywhere. The aerial pictures were taken from a roof.
A regular sedan seats 5 people, let's see how much space 5 bikes take up on the road:
Although unmanned, these 5 bikes are less than the width of an average car, and take up half the parking space. On the road, end-to-end they have an extremely small profile allowing other traffic to pass, and side-by-side riders could be in a formation about the length and width of a normal car.
After this, I had some free time and more ideas, which leads me to...
When self-propelled vehicles make a journey to the moon:
Location: Pollack Building, 5th floor
3 comments:
Wow, these are fun photos. I like the bikes in a chain off the building and I really like how they used their security locks as the links. I also like how you refer to them as a 'journey to the moon.' I was looking through Lucy Lippard's text and saw how she talked about her premises of art include the 'transformation of desire into reality, reality into dream and change.' I like how this is shown through the photo of the bikes. This seems to be some bizarre idea and transformed into reality and then you took it a step forward and created the idea of a moon escapade. Love it!
Have you seen Orozco's bicycle sculpture?
Thanks guys for the positive comments!
Ally, I reviewed that section in Overlay and really can see where you're coming from - I think that really relates to what's going on here.
Brad, I haven't seen Orozco's sculpture, and I didn't find it on Google with any luck either... can you provide a link?
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