Evolation, 1990

The principles collaborated in the design of an elongates semi-public garden adjacent to the cafeterias of the Carnation Company Headquarters building. The design generated three individual manifestations: Richard Thomas produced a grass-covered, fog-shrouded mound at the designed creek source while artist Michael Davis created a column over the creek’s drain. The image depicts a 31’ off-center brass balance beam that bridges a creek I the middle of the garden. The beam is sprung through the branches of an inverted tree made of fiberglass and copper. Water shooting from a nearby bronze frog periodically fills the beam, dips when filled with water and releases the liquid onto a green and red rock, respectively. The artwork’s fulcrum is set at the center of a 65’ equilateral triangle, defined as site lines from three points: a threshold stone at the entrance to the building, a grouping of three Cypress trees, and bronze California Newt laying her eggs across the stream.