SignWave

SIGN WAVE

When traveling, we encounter thousands of visual commands in the form of signs to modify our behavior. While many are useful most we ignore. When drawing towns and landscapes within my practice of landscape architecture, I almost always edit these out of my memory of the place. Yet they persist and subtly affect our visual environment and must change how we view and think about our towns. Ultimately, all of these signs become trash when they no longer signify. Sign Wave is a micro-landscape that sculpturally describes the relationship between viewer and the graphic imperative that clutter the view shed.

There is an in and an out to the SignWave: out is a cluttered patchwork of signs, in is a tranquil meditation space. One can climb in through the back of the Sign Wave by a small door inspired by a VW bug engine cover.