1996
Odaiba Bay, Tokyo, Japan
Painted on stripes

This was a public commission that overlooked Tokyo Bay on the artificial island of Odaiba. Situated on a walkway between apartment blocks, it is composed of twenty-five striped porticoes installed at regular intervals. They are staggered at various heights as they progress one after another. At each end, the porticoes are book-ended by mirrored walls.They are painted alternating between yellow/green striped with white as you climb uphill and orange/green striped with white when walking downhill. The inner and outer edges are white with lights below the crossbeams. The forms create an open walkway of arches without walls that invites pedestrians to walk through them. They’re also like window frames or viewfinders asking to be looked through, to position viewers within their environment and dictate the context they are seeing through.