North Hollywood Station
Dramatic Locale, 2005
Caryl Davis, artist
Caryl Davis designed a terrazzo paving area and a porcelain enamel steel panel for the station platform.
Text suggestive of geologic strata portrays a dialogue between land and a changing population in a listing of the many placenames given to the regions landforms by its human inhabitants. Bus passengers will literally walk into the San Fernando Valley over a rocky terrazzo image of the region - crossing vast ranges, valleys and fault zones extending from coast to desert, as seen from space.
“Here in Los Angeles, there is often little evidence that one is in a basin or a valley, and flanked by some of the planet’s fastest growing - and eroding - mountain ranges. My artwork for the North Hollywood station arose out of a desire to really experience this dramatic locale at the scale.”