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Fourth District Courts Building
700 E. 4th Street , Charlotte , NC

Building Exterior

Dimensions.
24 ft long by 8 ft high. Every eight feet across the piece the wall turns 45 degrees.

The artwork created for the District Courts Building in Charlotte, NC has been conceptually driven by greatly considering those who inhabit the site, the space, the building.

The mix of urban and rural spaces in the work reflect a contemporary aesthetic that merges past and present and
re-purposes the history of Mecklenburg County inorder to
provide a sense of perspective and solace.

The intention here was to create a rather timeless piece, one that might interest the wide variety of individuals to respond with their own point of reference.

Strong horizontal bands of imagery are evident throughout the artwork. These insets (insights) create a mix of actual and imagined spaces. Current day downtown Charlotte appears as an assembled collage of a dozen highrises. Historic scenes of neighborhoods and local parks composite another vantage point. Fragments of deep space pull one back and forth between the various insets. A sense of the nourishment of local flora and fauna is present as well. All differing, these bands of imagery build the architecture of the piece and evolve visually out of a similar framework. All images reside in a series of adjacent and serial planes - geometric, man-made in shape. The organization is purposeful, as the structure of the activity in the building is shaped by government, hierarchial and organized.

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