HomeMy Public PortalAbout10) 7H Final Art Design Concepts - Rosemead BlvdCity Council
October 15, 2013
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murals, as only nine inches of the murals would be visible from underneath their
currently proposed seating bench locations. The Commission requested that staff
present this item at a subsequent Council meeting, and new considerations for
alternate tile mural locations that enhance pedestrian visibility.
ANALYSIS:
Public artwork planned for the $20.7 million Rosemead Boulevard Safety
Enhancements and Beautification Project (Rosemead Project) will establish the City's
first public art collection comprised of art pavers, text art features, sculptures and tile
mosaic murals. Through these public art installments, the Rosemead Boulevard art walk
will exhibit Temple City's untold story, inviting pedestrians, cyclists and drivers to
experience the community's origins and shared values through imagery and interactive
artwork.
Together the artist team (i.e., Daniel Stern, Robin Brailsford and Carole Oueijan)
identified a unifying art walk theme, connecting sculptures, art pavers and tile murals
into a comprehensive narrative that conveys Temple City as an evolving community of
immigrants all working together for a brighter future. Robin Brailsford's paver and text
art features explore 100 years into the past from the founding of Temple Town in 1923
(Attachment "A"); while Daniel Stern's sculptures convey the city's physical and values
progression from the 1920s to current day using the Pacific Electric Red Car trolley as a
symbolic representation (Attachment "B"). Carole Oueijan's tile mosaic murals will focus
on the immigrant and family experiences of modern day Temple City.
While the sculpture and art paver components are ready for fabrication, staff has asked
artist Carole Oueijan to temporarily cease the final design concepting of the four tile
murals. During a recent field visit, the Rosemead Project contractor concluded that only
nine inches of each mural would be visible from underneath their currently proposed
seating bench locations. Since this public art component is the most costly-at
$60,000-the Commission is requesting Council concurrence for staff to pursue
alternate placement options for Oueijan's work. This direction would identify areas that
better showcase the delicate and detailed qualities of Oueijan's work at eye-level; while
also assisting the artist in defining the layout and narrative of her artwork in relation to
adjacent public art installations, possible new locations, dimensions and field conditions.
CONCLUSION:
Council is requested to accept the Commission's recommendations, allowing Stern and
Brailsford to proceed with the artwork fabrication phase for installation by April 2014.
Staff will also determine alternate locations for Oueijan's tile mosaic murals and present
options for Council consideration on November 5, 2013.
City Council
October 15,2013
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FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no impact to the adopted Fiscal Year 2013-14 City Budget. Artist agreements
totaling $168,400 (i.e., $50,000 for Stern, $58,400 for Brailsford and $60,000 for
Oueijan) were approved by the Council on September 3, 2013. Funding is appropriated
in the Rosemead Project construction budget.
ATTACHMENTS:
A. Final Design Concept for Art Pavers (Brailsford)
B. Final Design Concept for Sculptures (Stern)
ATTACHMENT "A"
FINAL DESIGN CONCEPT
Title:
Public Art Component:
Artist:
Concept Overview:
Temple City Routes
Art Pavers and Text Art Features
Robin Brailsford
Ms. Brailsford's final design concept for 24 art pavers and
text art features concentrated between Callita Street and
Pentland Avenue were inspired by research conducted at
the Bowers Museum, San Gabriel Mission Museum, and
Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum
(Homestead Museum). The stained glass, tile and woodwork
of La Casa Nueva-Walter P. Temple's family home-were
of particular interest to Brailsford's text and paver designs,
some of which are direct interpretations of actual pieces and
literature hand selected by the Temple family.
Paver designs include imagery of the native Kizh, or
"Gabrielino," people; immigration to Mexican California; and
scenes of rancho living. Letters written by Temple family
members and books found at La Casa Nueva inspired
Brailsford's concepts for 11 0-character text art paraphrases
that will be sandblasted into the sidewalk. Upon Council
approval, the Commission will continue to work with
Brailsford in finalizing text art paraphrases and pairing them
with corresponding art pavers.
Brailsford's research at the Homestead Museum has also
led to a partnership opportunity with Assistant Director, Paul
Spitzzeri, who will offer free website advertising and potential
field trip opportunities between the museum and art
installations. Spitzzeri is currently collaborating with
Brailsford in finalizing the text and paver art concepts to
ensure historic accuracy. This unprecedented partnership
could potentially lead to educational and special event
opportunities between the Homestead Museum and City,
and/or local schools and organizations.
Brailsford's final and articulated design concept is attached
hereto.
Temple City, California
June 29-October 2, 2013
TEMPLE CITY ROUTES
Pacific Rim Pavers and Paraphrases
The THIRD and final! IDEA
Temple Family History
Temple City ancestor, Workman, was a member of the first civilian overland immigration from New Mexico
(and the east) to Mexican California. The brothers Temple arrived by ship. The Temples and the members of that
first expedition -Wilson, Rowland and Workman -each went on to build unparalleled California dynasties,
accumulating baronial land acquisitions and creating agricultural, religious, financial, liquor, milling, slaughtering,
tanning, stores, building, mining, viticulture, shipping, water, oil, cattle, civic, railroad, political and familial
legacies of European proportions.
Jonathan Temple, Pliny Fisk Temple ... and 1. .. all grew up, hundreds of years apart, but in "happy New
England ... " in the town of Reading, Massachusetts ... where their father and mine had emigrated from England.
Like Pliny Fisk Temple, I also came overland to California from New Mexico, and here like him I am in Temple City,
working on achieving" honor for my family name."
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Temple Township
Temple is a topographic surname, meaning "near the temple." "Temple" is also an idea which common to
all cultures, beguiling immigrants and residents alike as a place of thought, refuge, beauty and spiritual
enlightenment.
Temple Township was laid out at time when the romantic Mexicano and California ranch life had come to
an end. The Temple heirs were recovering from 5 very unusual and lackluster decades, and building (with
newfound luck, oil and real estate fortunes) a city with the name of Temple. Walter Temple and his partners
founded the Town of Temple as a financial enterprise with an optimist's vision of health, value and neighbors.
Picket fences and shops, milk delivery and neighborhoods were the next boom to the California economy and the
Temples. These high expectations, and as a sign of the times, caused Temple Town to be advertised as, "whites
only ... " this despite the generations of Hispanic women married to Temple men and bearing the family heirs.
City of Temple City
Happily, we are well past those days. Temple City at 90 is a gem, with a diverse and dynamic population,
who is educated, prosperous and dedicated to a sort of town that is, "the best place to raise kid." Mature trees
on Las Tunas Boulevard shade hip California fusion restaurants, vintage Chevys pose polished at The Hat
Restaurant on Rosemead and Chinese brush painting is taught to children in by masters and students who have
come to the Pacific southwest for American opportunities and democracy.
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BUDGET and SCHEDULE
$56,400
Word research/ editing/ layout
Insurance
Meetings/communication/documentation/installation oversight
Materials/samples
Artist fees-mosaic design/fabrication
Casting of pavers and transport to the site
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$5000
$1500
$4000
$10,900
$20,000
$15,000
IDE A THR EE Thinking Process:
The Arts Committee , I be li ev e, liked t he co l o r s, styl e, r esea r ch, sca l e, tec hniqu e and integ ri t y of my art and my
r es um e and so as ked award ed m e th e co mmiss i o n and asked m e to procee d with a n id ea th at w as o nly apt to
Templ e City. Th ey w anted m e t o lo ok to th e future (really imposs ibility!), crea t e a narrative t o l ead pede strians
t hrou g h th e site . Th e work nee ds t o tie in t o the work of th e Ca rol e Ouji an -whose mosa ic s cover th e story of
th e city's citize ns, and to Dani el St e rn's, wh ose sc ulpture link the city to the large r world beyond its bord er s -via
th e Red Car and public t r ansportati o n.
So wh at i s un iqu e ly Templ e City, ti es bu t not st e p on t he t oes of the oth er artist s, info rm s the future by lo o kin g at
the pas t, fits within my own a rti sti c inte res t s and o e uvre, and ca n b e a rticula ted in 48 sm a ll interventio ns ove r a
l ar ge a rea?
W ell t he Te mpl e fami ly is unique, and a fas cinatin g subj ec t that no oth er city i s in a pos i t io n to shar e-not eve n
t he City of Indu st ry t hat houses t he Wo rkm an and Te m pl e Hom estea d Muse um a nd La Casa Nu ev a-th e Te mpl e
f a mil y hom e . That mus eum f eatures t he Te m p le Town site in t heir int rodu ctory fi l m, as W ater P. Templ e's m ea ns
of "rest o ring his f a mily honor." T he Te mpl es and t h eir compadres w er e (a nd ar e) a f asc i natin g f amil y -first
ov e rl and trave l er s to Ca lifo rni a, owne rs of 49.000 ac r es , r e n own ed r anche rs, fa rm er s, m e r chants, banke rs,
d eve lo pe rs, friends, politicians -citize ns of the US, th e n M exico, the n the US aga in . And this ea rly time-befo r e
th e fo undin g of t he city -·an d so ably de pi cte d in he r mosai cs by M s Ouij i an -is a hi sto ry that I w o uld guess m ost
conte mporary Te mple Cit y r es id e nts a re un aw ar e of. Why are the street names of Wor kma n and Agnes and
Kaufma n a propos? Why a r e th e re many pi ctures of Te mples in th e Sa n Gabrie l Mission Muse um?
What w as th eir life l ike, th eir f amilies , fri end s and indu stri o usness? How did they live and pros pe r, and how can
w e r e late t hat to our lives n o w ?
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Upon the advice of the committee, I visited the Homestead Museum, and met with the Assistant Director (and
author of the award-winning history of the families, that I had checked out of the Temple City Library.) Always
on the lookout for a unique path, I asked Mr. Spitzzeri if he wou ld be interested in collaborating with me on this
project-and thus link the city and the museum directly. He said he would . And so we have together assembled
the following visua l and lite rary wa l king tour, for Rosemead Boulevard, that makes a museum fieldtrip of the art,
and the museum a partner of the city. This is a fresh and a brand new idea -one that looks to the future by
looking to the past -via the real and digital worlds. The Mu seum i s prepared to feature thi s Temple City public
artwork on their website, to link us and them to other Temple links -such as Mount Wilson, Pio Pico Ranch,
Bowers Museum, First Famili es Organization , etc. The links may include radio as well, the radio classics,
"Romance of the Ranchos," features the era w e are showcasing -from the family' s arrival in Californio to the
founding of the town .
Listen to: episodes 21, Rancho La Puente,
and 31, Don Juan Temple :
http:/ /archive .org/detai ls/Romance_of_the_Ranchos
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LAYOUT
The individual elements of the project must work individually, and as a group. If there is a chronological layout to
the work, where does it begin and end? What is the direction of the pedestrian -and thus the orientation of
paver and prose? They must work as single entities or a series, starting (or ending) at any point in the Mobius
strip of street sidewalks. They also must be interesting to the casual observer (waiting for the bus or ordering a
burger) and to the dedicated history buff, on a tour sponsored by the Homestead Museum or Huntington
Gardens.
The layout suggested here is a draft -and I look forward to working closely with Temple City staff, to finalize
pavers and paraphrases, locations and direction . There are simple too many moving parts, to proceed without
input!
TIM ELINE
As the work of the three other public artists on and near Rosemead Boulevard already strongly feature aspects of
the Temple City suburban subdivision, 20th C life and accomplishments, the pavers and prose of "Pioneer
Industrialists of La Casa Nueva," will only lead up to the founding time of the city. One cannot cover everything
(!)-and this leaves the door open for future site specific Temple City public art about Wilson, astronomy,
Hubble, hiking and astronauts ... or the wedding industry (fabulous visuals!...). or the wonderful (Mmmmm !)
dining to be had throughout the city.
PAVERS
The primary visual source is the Temple mansion-La Casa Nueva-that inspires and informs Ms Brailsford's
design scheme, is the hundred year old stained glass windows of the family interests, public narrative and posed
portraiture in the Temple family home-La Casa Nueva. She has also found inspiration in the Casa's tile and
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architecture, and images from the Bowers Museum, San Diego Historical Museum and Mission San Gabriel
Museum.
Many of the stained glass windows in the home were based on the (then) new art of photography .... the
combination of these mediums one which Robin has explored in depth ... but never in LithoMosa i c. The stained
glass size, look and narrative of the pavers will be unique, and will relate uniquely to the cultured atmosphere of
the celebrated Temple home. Whatever the source of inspiration, all the pavers will have the same "look" of
stained glass .
Additionally stained glass is an interesting metaphor-these are images that the Temples included in their own
home of their family narrative that can be read from both the interior (private) world, and the exterior (public)
one. The "first" Workman was among many other things, a stained glass artisan .
PROSE -Paraphrase
Inspirations include : paraphrasing, Temple letters written in long hand, texts, tweets, haiku, and excerpts from
books in La Casa Nueva's library. Our goal is to keep the writing contemporary and intriguing, to have it be
neither "interpretive panels" nor boosterism. We are tasked with creating "art words, "and so therefore art we
shall endeavor to make it be.
For historical accuracy and literary aplomb, author and historian Paul Spitzerri, will work with artist Robin
Brailsford on the writing. The prose will be sandblasted by the General Contractor into the sidewalks at 24 pre -
designated areas.
The font may change from location to location (a means of keying the sources) and we w i ll endeavor to keep each
paraphrase to 110 characters.
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WORK IN G VOCAB ULARY
Paraphrase:
Prose-24 locations
Sources:
Learn from ancient and contemporary communication -letters/poems/tweets.
Write quixotic originals-all should intrigue and invite further.
Draw short quotes from family letters (mimicking script) dating from 1842 -1930
Vocabulary:
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A-Agriculture, Architecture, Attention, Agnes, Alta California, Arts, Augers, Agape
B-Banking, Buenos Noches, Baptized, Brands, Bandits, Bark. Biography
C -Com padres, Collaboration, Commerce, Consciousness, Crops, Curiosity, Cerritos, Citizen, Crest, Composers, Chaparral, City Builders.
Cameo
D -Dance, Design, Drought, Don, Desert
E-Ev eryday life, Eras, Eclipse, Explorer, Erstwhile, Enlightenment, Evocative
F -Fraternity, Family, Frontier, Flowers, Foo d, Fo x, Friendship, Fortune, First
G-Gold Rush, Gardens, Gesture, Groves, Geyser, Genteel, Greenhorns
H -Hoofs, Humor, Horsemanship, Hispanic, Hand, Honor, Homestead, Hides
1-Internet, Immigration, Identity, Industry, lshi, Indios, Internet
J-Justice, Judson Studios
K-Kitchen, Knowledge, Kaufmann , Kizh
L-Luck, Lab or, Language, Library, Listening, Letters. Land grants, Light, Longfellow
M -Masons, Music, Mercantile, Monument, Massachusetts, Marriage, Mexico, Museum, Manifest Destiny
N /0-Natives, Namesake, Nostalgia, Oil
P -Partners, Pets, Path, Personality, Portraiture, Property, Public Relations, Pleasure, Prosperous, Progeny, Politics. Pueblo, Pio Pico,
Photography, Padres. Plies, Ploughs," Paradise Lo st''
0/R-Romance, Religion, Radio, Risk, Rancho, Rails, Ruination, Rafaela, Rowland , Reading, Real es tate, QR codes, Road, Resolute, Rivers
S-Settlers, Ship, Self-Reflection, Sentiment, Shakespeare, Serapes, Sunday, Synchronicity, Sunnyslope, So lstice, Savor
T -Timing, Taos, Tea, Townsite, Te a tree, Tranquil, Tan gible, Threshold, Trail, Truck farming, Toypurin a
U-Utopia
V -Vineyard, Vigilante, Vaquero, Utilitarian, Vo lumes, Venerable
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W -Website, Wheels, Weather, Walnuts, Wilson, Wo r kman, World Wide Web . Welcoming, Whili ng away
X/Y -Youth, Yankees
Z-Zoology
INTERNET PRESENCE
Into the future-digitally the public art project will be will be linked to the Homestead Museum website, which
will feature this project . The website will invite museum guests to visit the public art project, in person. There
will be also links to further research, public art and journeys, such as Brailsford's 11Pioneros de Ia San Gabriel
Rivera/' FTA Metro station in Irwindale, Los Angles Arboretum, Pio Pica Homestead, Southwestern Museum, the
San Gabriel Mission Museum, etcetera and so on.
On site, we shall also look into i ncluding QR codes for onsite w i reless research . It is ou r hope that the Temple
City website, will highlight the unique nature of this project as well-adding to the City and Museum
interrelationship and excitement.
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TWE NTY-FOUR PAVERS/ TWE NTY -FOUR partnering PARAPHRASES
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EXPLANATION
Images are 95% draft of paver images. Those not yet in stained g lass mode, will be once the concept is
approved.
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Text in BLUE and italics are latest comments from Paul Spitzerri, and is an example of the supplemental information on the Homestead
Museum website for this project.
T em ple City Ro ut es/ Pacific Ri m Pav ers and Par aphras es
Robin Brailsford/ resume
Artzst, Inventor, Aesthetic Engineer
Brailsford Public Art
POBox426
11 16 Marron Valley Road
Dulzura, Califomia 91917
619-468-9641
Email: robinbrailsford@yahoo.com
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LithoMosaic.com
LithoMosaic Facebook page -updated daily
October 2013
PUBLIC ART-SELECTED CURRENT, and ONGOING
LONG BEACH TRANSIT, Long Beach, California. Just awarded, is the commission to design and build landmark Zero-
Emis sion bus stations and charging facilities, at the Queen Mary and the LBT main yard. The Long Beach Transit Mall
design team of Brailsford Public Art, STV /VBN Architects and MIG Landscape Architects was reconvened for the winning
result. D esign charrettes have not yet begun, but we hope to involve BPA team member Bhavna Mehta's one color, one
sheet, cut paper designs into major LithoMosaics, e."'{ploring the science and reach of electricity. $24,060 design fee, 2013
-2015
TRUWIND DEVELOPMENT, Huntington Beach, CA, In the development stage, 3 - 5 tessellated stone walls, on walls facing ball fields, on a retired elementary
school site from the 1950's. With Forma Design, the tlu:ee R's, dinosaurs and materials that glow with the flesh of a headlight are all ideas in the hopper. $75,000,
2013-2014
GARSITE CO:MMUNITY CENTER, Las Vegas Nevada, For the Parks and Recreation Department of the City of Las Vegas, a 30' LithoMosaic dinosaur skeleton,
for a huge pool deck of a renewed center. S25,000 2013 -2014
D ESERT WILDLIFE REFUGE Visitor Center, Com Creek, Nevada. Working with the National Forest Se.rvice and Chief Concrete, two 10' interpretive medallions
in LithoMosaic a nd a 1200; handcast Lithocrete river. Installation October,2013 $35,000
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDS, Los Angeles, California. We are the public artists with Mia Lelu:er Landscape
Architects and Kimley-Hom Engineers for Patton Park, Los Angeles, CA. Edendale Botanica is 8 curving LithoMosaic
benche s wh ose floral imagery and scavenger hunt names celebrates the "Red Hill" nature, and astounding cultural
contrib utions of neighborhood residents-from Charlie Chaplin to Jackson Pollack. $25,000 2012-2014. With Korn-
Randolph Landscape Architects and Kimley-Hom Engineers, this yet to be named pocket park and artwork on Carlton
Way, Hollywood , CA will be inspired by Neutra and Wright, Reucha, Richter and tectonics. I t will involve unique cast
arte' brut LithoMosaic siteworks. $35,000. 2013-2014.
CITY OF LEMON GROVE, Lemon Grove, CA. PIONEER MODERNISM-With artist Wic k Ale:\:ander, KTU+A and Kimley-
Hom I will be creating art for the Main Street Promenade -involving low-income housing, a mass transit plaza with
I nternet access and LEED Gold certification. Our work will include wind turbine towers, interpretive LithoMosaic ground
plane elements and recreational opportunities for city and Senior Citizens. 2009-2013. $5 00 ,000. Dedication Se p tember 27,2013.
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METRO GOLD LINE, L os Angeles, CA. For the Irwindale ligh t rail public art commission, my ''Los Pionereos de la Rivera
de San Gabriel", will tell th e story of this unique Chican o community through a commissioned corrido, the names of all the
city's residents from a 195 0's census cut into a shadow-casting arbor, and 10,000 square feet Litho -Mosaic on the statio n
platforms-with an image relating to family trees and alluvial fans. $350,000. Construction beginning now. 2010-2013
PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMEl'-JT , City of San Diego, CA., "BIRD PARK" is an entire 6-acre site within Balboa
Park, sculpted with art, landscape and hardscape into a Perchiform bird and her nest. Worlcing with WRT and ONA
landscape architects, her beak as a patio, her gizzard a tot lot etc. Site of the h ugely popular BIRD PARK SUMMER
CONCERT SERIES, community members are raising funds to complete 9 public art elements, including a bird's eye
gazebo. $500,000 public art budget. 1994-. Now 2 decades later Q) BIRD PARK has recently been named "a priority"
by The Friends of Balb oa Park, to be completed, with all public art ins talle d , and new waterwise lands caping, by the
Balboa Park Centennial in 2015. She is also the focus of the Switzer Highlands, Sister N eighbo rhood Association. We
are currently working on plans \vith that committee, to trade artists and BIRD PA RK's, with the Nashimi neighborhood, of
the capital Bak'U, of the country of Azerbijan.
LITHO MOSAIC
PATENT, US Patent Office, Washington, D.C. I am the inventor of LithoMosaic, a proces s for setting mosaics in
m onolithic concrete pours and production. Collaborating with Litl1ocrete, Shaw & Sons and T.B Penick, we are now
training and promo ting internationally, this new art process, which liberates creativity and budgets for public art, landscape
architecture and architecture. See: www.lithomosaics .com ... but the LithoMosaic page on Facebook is even better.
LITHOMOSAlC AWARDS
LANDSCAPE ARHICTECT AND SPECIFIER NEWS, Cover article and centerfold o f August, 2013 i ss ue, by Steve Lang, about. "Ah HA! Sh oreline Stroll,", in
L ong Beach , CA.
DECOR.r\.TIVE CONCRETE INSTITUTE, World of Concrete, Las V egas, Nevada. Honorable Mention for VENICE
LithoMosaic. 2011 ,
CONCRETE PAVEMENT AWARD, D ecorative and D urable D esign North Island Credit Union LithoMosaic, Honorable
Mention (Commercial Category) San Diego, Ca. 2008
A.\ffiRICAN CONCRETE INSTITUTE AWARD, North I sland Credit Union LithoMosaic, Hardscape, San Diego, CA 2008.
CORNERSTONE &'XCELLENCE A WARD North Island Credit Union, North Island Credit Union, LithoMosaic, San D iego,
CA 2008
CALIFORNL'\ CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION, Soutl1em California, Public Works category: WINNER-Miramar Wa t er
T reatme nt Facility, City of San D iego, CA. 200 8
WESTERN COUNCIL OF CONSTRUCTION CONSUMERS, "Excellence in Design, Engineering and Construction" for
"River of Life" and the D owntown Transit Mall, Santa Monica, CA. 2003.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, READY-MIX CONCRETE ASSOCIATION, "Cornerst one Award -for excellence in the
application o f concrete in the Downtown Transit Mall Intersection," for "River of Life," Santa Monica, CA. 2003 .
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RESEARCH-all books are from Robin Brailsford's personal collection
Note: We have taken out the bibliography for Ideas One and Two
A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LIFE AND THOUGHT, by Nelson Manfred Blake, McGraw Hill, USA, 1972.
ADOBE DAYS, by Sarah Bixby Smith, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1987
AN ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TRADITIONAL SYMBOLS, by J.C, Cooper, Thames and Hudson, London, 1978
"Temple-An imagio mundi: a microcosm: a spiritual world centre: the earthly counterpart of the heavenly
archetype: the dwelling place of divinity on earth: the sheltering power of the Great Mother; the meeting
place of the three worlds having contact to heaven, the earth, the underworld and its waters: equilibrium.
A temple is often symbolically the highest place on the land. Temples sometime represent the cosmic
structure and sometimes the religious structure between gods and men. As the cosmic structure, the
superimposed stages or tiers of the buildings are the horizontal, existential plane with its endless varieties
of degrees of being; it is axial and vertical bond between heaven and earth and earth and the underworld;
the stages signify ascent towards the heavens and the spiritual ascent of the devotee: it is the image of the
sacred mountain. The central pillar of the temple is both the Axis Mundi and the Cosmic Tree." Page 169
CURIOSITY AND METHOS, Ten Years of Cabinet Magazine, the Editors, Cabinet Books, NYC, 2012
DESTINATIONS, How Trolleys and Postcards helped create the Southern California Dream, 1898-1950s. by Roger
Titus and Jim Bunte, Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation, 2006.
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GENTLE ARTIST of the SAN GABRIEL VALLEY, California History Preserved Through the Life and Paintings of Walter
P. Temple, Jr., by Josette Temple and Laura Bundrige, Stephens Press, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2004.
GOLD DUST AND TROWELS, Nuggets of FreeMasonry in the Gold Rush Days of California, by Granille Frisbie, no
publisher, no date.
"It is no secret ... what FreeMasonry teaches: Masonry teaches love and kindness in the home; honesty
and fairness in business; courtesy in social contacts; help for the weak and unfortunate; resistance to
wickedness; trust and confidence in good men; forgiveness toward the penitent, love toward one another;
and , above all, reverence for the Supreme Being, based on a firm belief in the Fatherhood of God, the
Brotherhood of Man and the Immortality of the Soul."
HISTORIC SPOTS IN CALIFORNIA, by Mildred Brooks Hoover, Hero Eugene & Ethel Grace Rensch, Stanford
University Press, 1932
ISH I-in TWO WORLDS, A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America, by Theodora Kroeber, University of
California Press, Berkeley, CA. 2011
LANDSCAPE FOR LIVING, by Garrett Eckbo, 1949. Re-issued Hennessy and Ingalls, Santa Monica, CA, 2002
MILLARD SHEETS -The Early Years {1926-1944), by Gordon T. McClelland, The California Regionalist Art
Information Society, Newport Beach CA, 2010
RAMONA, by Helen Hunt Jackson, 1884
RANCHO DELUXE, Rustic Dreams and Real Western Living, by Alan Hess, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 2000.
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ROBERT STACY-JUDD, Maya Architecture, The Creation of a New Style, by David Gebhard, Capra Press, Santa
Barbara, CA, 1993.
THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT IN CALIFORNIA-Living the Good Life, by Kenneth R. Trapp, Abbeville Press,
NY, 1993.
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CALIFORNIA INDIANS, by Robert F. Heizer, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1993.
THE OCTOPUS, by Frank Norris, Doubleday, 1901
THE STORY of EL RANCHO de Ia NACION, by Irene Phillips, South Bay Press, National City, CA, 1959
VIRGIN LAND, The American West as Symbol and Myth, by Henry Nash Smith, Harvard University Press,
Cambridge, USA. 1950.
THE WORKMAN & TEMPLE FAMILIES, Southern California, 1830-1930, by Paul R. Spitzzeri, Seligson Publishing
Incorporated, Dallas, Texas, 2008.
"As reported in press accounts, the land for the Town of Temple consisted of a half-million dollar
purchase of 285 acres of the Sunnyslope Tract. The minute book of the Temple Townsite company shows
that on 29 May, 1923, George Woodruff and unnamed associates sold parcels of land for four tracts ... for
$500,000 payable in $5000 shares of Townsite Company stock, and it may be that these parcels constituted
additional land for the town. An additional half million was expended on the construction of a business
district and the extension of the Pacific Electric Railway line and erection of a depot. With some 1300
business and residential lots, the townsite's original configuration was designed to accommodate some
5000 residents. As was common in most of southern California of the period, racially restrictive covenants
were incorporated into the development of the town." Page 238
42 Temple City Routes/ Pacific Rim Pavers and Paraphrases