Alignment Landscape Artwork
Seven Spots and a Path, 2005
Jud Fine, artist
As Landscape Artist, Jud Fine collaborated with the landscape architect and the Landscape Project Team to develop design concepts and specifications for landscaping artwork and plantings integrated throughout the Orange Line route. In addition to seven landscape art areas, designed specifically to reflect local conditions, Jud selected the Alignment Trees; a double line of Aleppo and Torrey Pines, spaced to roughly approximate the sense of movement of a vehicle on the busway. The alignment trees get closer together as they come to and depart from stations or intersections. The system places trees across from each other on the corridor in the following spacing:
0’-10’-15’-20’-25’-30’-40’-55’-70’-95’-etc.-95’-70’-55’-40’-30’-25’-20’-15’-10’-0’
“This work is an organic referent to the larger community that demands it and the individual residences it serves. Its plan reflects the unity of the group and the uniqueness of the individual. Over a span of 14 miles it is fitting and logical that the landscape would be the foundation for this concept. Whereas the realization of the hard structure that is the Orange Line ceases with its physical completion, the process of the soft structure – people and plants – just begins. People and plants slowly and irrevocably reclaim their prerogative over the hardscape.”