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From YouTube: Artscapes - "Justice Within"
Description
Joel Breaux of artist team Krivanek + Breaux describes their recently installed work Justice Within. The work is funded by OKC’S 1% for Art ordinance for the new Municipal Courthouse downtown.
A
Justice
within
the
artist
insulation
that
we
did
has
six.
What
I
would
term
is
pylons
or
totems
are
pillars.
Those
pylons
are
made
in
two
sections:
two
halves:
each
F
has
a
single
word.
The
word
itself
is
divided
in
in
two
parts,
because
it's
divided
in
two
parts.
It's
viewed
in
perspective.
You
have.
A
It
requires
a
certain
distance
from
the
actual
pylon
to
read
the
word,
if
you're
at
some
oblique
angle,
you're
only
seeing
half
of
the
word
and
it's
it's
illegible
for
the
most
part,
especially
if
you're
not
aware
of
the
project
you're
seeing
bits
and
pieces
of
words,
so
there
are
six
different
locations
on
site
one
for
each
pylon.
That
puts
you
in
the
correct
position
to
be
able
to
read
the
word.
This
is
interesting
to
me
because
that
particular
set
of
words
references
the
relationship
between
the
Courts
Building
and
the
Municipal
Court
and
the
public.
A
It
represents
how
the
courts
begin
to
relate
to
the
public.
Their
words
like
justice
and
equality,
so
that
word
being
split
in
half,
allows
the
interpretation
to
be
more
like
an
agreement
between
those
two
halves
of
the
words
so
that
when
you
see
them
and
they
come
together,
it's
an
agreement.
That's
formed
and
there
may
be
a
little
bit
of
tension
when
it's
not
together.
It
asks
you
to
kind
of
fill
in
the
blanks
a
little
bit.
A
There
are
two
sets
of
words
that
are
in
duality
against
each
other.
One
set
of
words
is
on
the
inside,
which
begins
to
represent
individual
conflict
people
that
the
reason
that
they
may
be
going
to
the
courts,
whether
they
committed
potential
crime
larceny
or
if
they
just
have
a
traffic
violation
or
something
like
that
dispute
about
custody
right
things
of
that
nature,
the
exterior
of
the
pylons,
the
taxonomy
of
words,
has
to
do
with
the
court
itself
as
being
at
the
adjudicator
arbitrator
of
those
issues
and
how
the
public
relates
to
a
larger
community.
A
The
selection
of
those
words
once
we
develop
those
taxonomy
is
to
figure
out
what
particular
groupings
of
words.
Bj
was
working
with
the
courts
themselves
with
individual
judges
and
in
trying
to
develop
the
most
appropriate
taxonomy
of
words.
We
don't
necessarily
have
a
background
in
in
law,
and
you
know
a
really
broad
knowledge
of
municipal
court
systems,
so
we
rely
on
them
to
give
us
clarity
about
some
of
those
words
and
what
they
should
be
or
shouldn't
be.
A
We
had
a
desire
to
bring
text
back
onto
public
buildings
if
you
look
at
historic
buildings
with
the
Greek
buildings
or
Roman
buildings
or
even
Egyptian
buildings,
their
hieroglyphics
write
inscribed
into
the
buildings,
the
Romans
and
the
Greeks
put
text
on
buildings
and
a
lot
of
the
times
most
of
the
time
for
the
majority
of
human
history.
When
there
were
texts
on
buildings,
that
information
was
not
necessarily
to
sell
you
something
on
large
public
buildings.
That
information
was
there
to
uphold
public
ideals
right.
A
A
lot
of
that
information
has
been
lost
or
been
taken
off
of
buildings
and
buildings
have
been
named
through
other
ways,
whether
it's
corporate
sponsorship.
You
know
our
individual
donors,
so
we've
lost
a
lot
of
text
on
buildings
that
are
for
the
public
good.
When
we
first
started,
part
of
our
mission
was
to
bring
that
back
into
buildings
to
have
text
that
would
be
on
buildings
and
within
the
realm
of
the
building.
That
would
be
about
some
public
ideals.
A
This
particular
piece
allows
for
people
to
pass
through
some
of
those
words,
those
large
words,
those
six
large
words
because
they're
separated
in
half
it
makes
a
space
on
the
inside.
You
can
enter
into
that
space
and
it's
not
just
about
entering
into
the
space
to
me
and
the
PG
as
well.
You
are
actively
entering
into
the
work.
You're
like
part
of
Justice
are
part
of
equality.
A
participant
may
not
see
it
that
way,
but
that's
how
we
see
their
involvement
in
it.
They're
not
just
bystanders.