This piece is part of my "Yosemite Series" that was shot in San Francisco, Ca on the Embarcadero of the Brutalist artwork by Armand Vaillancourt and is known as the Vaillancourt Fountain. This fountain was installed in 1971, when the city was still ringed by an overhead highway and served as a lunchtime fixture for many an office worker and then for skateboarders. After the big earthquake of 1989, that portion of the hiway was removed and now the S.F. Arts Commission has determined this public artwork should be removed (aka "deaccessioning"). Populating the area around it are the latest fad of pickleball courts. This sculpture made of 101 concrete blocks is 40 feet high and weighs 710 tons, which one might think after 54 years would be pretty permanent.
Through my photosculpture process, in the concrete blocks of the fountain, I discovered a wonderful abstraction that takes me to the wonder of backpacking in the nearby canyons and mountains that ring the bay area and their starry night skies.
This piece is part of my "Yosemite Series" that was shot in San Francisco, Ca on the Embarcadero of the Brutalist artwork by Armand Vaillancourt and is known as the Vaillancourt Fountain. This fountain was installed in 1971, when the city was still ringed by an overhead highway and served as a lunchtime fixture for many an office worker and then for skateboarders. After the big earthquake of 1989, that portion of the hiway was removed and now the S.F. Arts Commission has determined this public artwork should be removed (aka "deaccessioning"). Populating the area around it are the latest fad of pickleball courts. This sculpture made of 101 concrete blocks is 40 feet high and weighs 710 tons, which one might think after 54 years would be pretty permanent.
Through my photosculpture process, in the concrete blocks of the fountain, I discovered a wonderful abstraction that takes me to the wonder of backpacking in the nearby canyons and mountains that ring the bay area and their starry night skies.
If you would like to read up on it please see wonderful article by Brian Boucher in Art World from 8/26/25. Click here for link: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/san-francisco-controversial-embarcadero-fountain-2655974