City of Charlotte, NC Services, 4 May 2016

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From YouTube: LYNX Blue Line Extension - Spotlight on Public Artists, 36th Street Station

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See how CATS and two local artists transform a Blue Line Station into a work of art that captures the essence of one of the city’s most vibrant neighborhoods.

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Noda is not like any place anywhere; it makes me think of this quote by henry david thoreau, where he says it's not what you're looking at that matters, it's what you see.

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Public art within the public transportation system has this great impact because people are gathering together. Our.

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Involvement with the project covers a couple of different areas. The concept.

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Involves a lot of our own subjective, poetic interpretation of the area, because we've been here for over 30 years, we.

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Have the small T mosaic being.

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Hand-Cut small T, which is a material that historically, has been used in some of the most amazing ancient buildings. And then we have.

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The windscreens there's.

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One that Paul design in there too, that I design and.

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The station itself, the kind of the shelters one.

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Of the things that we really wanted to bring to the station in terms of concept was the idea of color. We chose a.

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Bright red as our station color, and because we wanted to signify that our neighborhood is different than any other place of City Roots work is, is more I, think intuitive and more colorful, and it embraces a kind of a different dialogue. My.

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Work pretty much focuses on environmental issues, so I really wanted to bring some organic natural elements into the hard surface of the station and really soften it up a little bit. I.

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Would say that mine is probably more masculine and more of a technical approach to things, and then we also for myself have a granite bench that I'm working on as well. Working in granted is a is a terrible thing for anybody to it's it's very hard. It's very durable. It's.

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A very grueling process, the.

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Material is from North Carolina, it's. It's called Mount Airy white.

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One of the things that everybody's excited about is you know the light rail opening, the anticipation for that public.

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Transportation also can play a really strong role in educating the public about the arts. So it's a it's a good jumping-off point for people to be exposed.

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