OJAMA Public Art Installation
Joyfully Serious Art
Participating in the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center’s vision to “joyfully and mindfully use arts and culture to engage with our diverse community,” we developed a temporary art installation—an exploration of space, time and our experience of the natural world. Using straw wattles (tube-shaped erosion control devices filled with straw) as a medium, we examined how we respond to nature’s interruption of the manufactured environment.
Artist: Calvin Abe
Winner of the Urban Beautification Award 2000, The Los Angeles Business Council Merit Award 1999, and American Society of Landscape Architects Southern California.