USC/Expo Park Station
(Untitled)
Robbert Flick, artist
Estimated completion 2010
Driving down major thoroughfares with camera in hand, Robbert Flick documents neighborhoods at a specific moment in time. The camera shutter clicks every few seconds, creating frame by frame views of what we often perceive as a blur through the window of a moving vehicle. By slowing down the process of looking, Flick gives the viewer the opportunity to discover bits and pieces of neighborhoods that when pieced together, create an overall impression.
For the USC/Expo Park Station artwork, Flick proposes to photograph between Jefferson and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard on the north and south ends, and between Central Avenue and Normandie Avenue to the east and west. Several panels will intersperse historical photographs from the collection of the University of Southern California and the American Automobile Association, demonstrating the changes to neighborhood landmarks over the past 100 years. Other art panels will present these thoroughfares as they exist at the time they are photographed, over time becoming a historical document themselves.
“These East/West and North/South corridors are on the verge of major change and have already a little known but well documented history. It is my intent to create a temporal representation of these thoroughfares in terms of the present.”