chase the light

Urban Light incorporates 202 antique cast-iron lampposts from various cities in and around the Los Angeles area. In the 1920s, each city designed its own streetlamps as a form of public art and civic identity. Over the past seven years, Burden recovered and restored many of these vintage one-and-a-half ton lampposts. When they arrived at the artist?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s compound in Topanga Canyon in pieces, they were sandblasted and missing parts, including the hand-blown glass lanterns and globes, were fabricated or salvaged from other lamps. They were then painted a medium grey and electrified. The artist catalogued each streetlamp by individual type according to the year of its manufacture, its original location, its height, and the number of lamps it contains. The artist describes the streetlamps as, ?¢‚Ǩ?ìa statement about what constitutes a civilized and sophisticated society: safe after dark and beautiful to behold.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù

My two word review: “It’s cool”. I hereby announce this the first official chasethelight.com approved photo spot. Quicktime VR pano alert! Click on the image!