"Pacific Riminiscences"
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Bold, single strokes of a 2000 year-old art form define the cultural landscape where a ribbon of rails gleam in the midnight moonlit sky. The Pacific Rim crescent moon, softly nestled in a bank of nuanced clouds, observes the tension between tradition and innovation and its accompanying dialogue of old and new. El Palo Alto's imposing presence in the background is in counterpoint with the railroad tracks on a continuum in the negative space. Resembling nine smoked, grey keys on an artistic piano, the tracks harmonize with the majestic California redwood.
The rough, hewn tracks with their hardened steel frame refer to the explosion of technology of the last century when Leland Stanford Jr. University?s young students defied boundaries and created a cultural Renaissance. They also suggest the promise of technology for the 21st century—its positive influence on the Arts in the Valley. Repeating a sentiment that Art had played an integral role in their lives, the many who shared their "riminiscences" imbued the tracks with the rhythm and syncopation of their extraordinary stories. The tree, the moon, and the tracks challenge the notion of time and space and its intersection with the locus of memory. On the Pacific Rim where all possibilities exist Pacific Riminiscences' legacy endures.
