Changing colored lights are a significant nighttime feature of the four steel sculptures in the grassy area near the Pacific Boulevard off-ramp to Lyon Street in downtown Albany. But lately they’ve not come on.
Albany may get its long-awaited public art project, a set of steel sculptures intended to look like flowers, just before Christmas time.
Somewhere on or near this corner, the city of Albany wants to place a big metal sculpture of wildflowers. So, to think about something other than the corona contagion for a minute, how is that coming along?
Whatever happened to the idea of public art in the shape of giant metal wildflowers sprouting near the Lyon Street entrance to downtown Albany? The $80,000 project was in the news last year, and now it’s up to ODOT to decide whether to permit it in the intended spot.
In the dark: Look at those sculpture lights
For weeks the colored lights on Albany’s steel wildflower sculptures had been giving the city fits, in the words of Rick Barnett of the parks department. But now the one light that refused to work before has been fixed.
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