A schematic of the Ramaytush Ohlone First Settlements on the San Francisco Peninsula.
Renderings in 3D Studio Max of the North and West Facades of the parking garage.
Views from the Northwest, Northeast, West and Southwest of the garage.
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On April 29th., 2022 I submitted an application to The San Francisco Arts Commission for the 2000 Marin Street Art Project, to make a proposal for a monumental artwork to be integrated ino the North and West facades of the parking garage on the City Distribution Division's new campus.
The San Francisco Arts Commission acknowledges that they are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone. They affirm the sovereign rights of their community as First Peoples and are committed to supporting the traditional and contemporary evolution of the American Indian community and uplifting contemporary indigenous voices and culture.
While waiting for notice of the Commission's decision on who it will invite to submit proposals I have developed the design below, which will act as the basis for any future discussion and development in which I may be involved.
Views from the Northwest, Northeast, West and Southwest of the garage.
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These views represent the artwork as a series of eighteen independantly assembled and installed layered elements mounted directly to the biulding structure through the preexisting walls of the garage, with all but two of the existing center panels colored green to represent the land form of the peninsula. The configuration of the West wall was determined by evaluating the elevation renderings submitted with the project description, however the plan rendering does not show the same structural detail? The installation would work equally well if the wall were flat.
Each layered structure consists of four levels of parallel aluminum extrusions, each level rotated 75º above the one below. The first, green, vertical layer represents the land. The second, black, stands for work, tilling, and building by the community. The third, red, represents life and living, and the fourth, white, represents the spiritual and ethereal. The layers at each level are aligned consistantly throughout, with variations of ther profiles defining the different character of each community. The colors, black, red and white, are commonly used by the Ohlone in their ornamentation.
Found on Wikipedia, this map is the most extensively annotated record of Ramaytush settlement on the San Francisco peninsula at the time of initial Spanish colonisation, and was used as the basis for my diagrams locating the Ramaytush settlements below. Map by by Noahedits.
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The two diagrams above are intended to displayed as plaques to be mounted in view of the North and West walls of the garage respectively, to identlfy the Ramaytush settlements by name in the order and location in which they are presented on the walls. All of the settlements in the Yelamu community, wich coincides with the San Franciso area, are dispayed on the North wall, together with the location of the CDD campus.