Artists Art Up Loma Linda sbX Bus Stations
Photo Courtesy of: Jim Shipp
Mike Valencia, a steel fabricator who worked with artists Patty and Juan Navarrete to bring the public art pieces to life, installs screws on an obelisk art piece wrapped with historic photographs of Loma Linda history.
Photo Courtesy of: Jim Shipp
Artists Patty and Juan Navarrete hail from Taos, New Mexico. Recently they worked to install three public art pieces they created for sbX bus stops in Loma Linda.
Photo Courtesy of: Jim Shipp
Workers drill screws into the obelisk on site at the sbX park and ride lot on Anderson Street.
Photo Courtesy of: Jim Shipp
The obelisk is wrapped with photographs of Loma Linda's history.
Photo Courtesy of: Jim Shipp
An obelisk at the park and ride stop also boasts a sculpture of keys, representing the jumble of keys received by John Burden when he bought Loma Linda Sanitarium in 1905.
Photo Courtesy of: Jim Shipp
Photographs were reproduced on porcelain-steel. This increases longevity and resists vandalism.
Photo Courtesy of: Jim Shipp
A close up of the steel-sculpted orange blossom in an homage to the area's heritage. The stamens of the blossom, near LLUMC, are dichroic glass spheres, representing protons used in treatment at the medical center.
Photo Courtesy of: Jim Shipp
The steel-sculpted orange blossom is part of the inverte obelisk that sits at the sbX station near Loma Linda University Medical Center.
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