Signal forest. 70 Road signs invented as graphic images, steel and reflective adhesive cutting plotters. 2020-2021. Rotonda Cholguán, Región del Bío-Bío. Chile.
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This project proposes a sculptural/objectual volume composed of 70 vertical pieces that in its upper part virtually build a yellow volume with black graphics, generating a three-dimensional composition that has a height of 2.30 meters by a diameter of approximately 18 meters. This objectual, graphic and chromatic volume establishes a reference with the signage. Objects that are incorporated in road landscapes, streets and highways, of quick reading and symbolic efficiency.
The project proposes to make an exercise of appropriation of these road elements, and in a playful way -with a touch of humor- generate a sculpture, which in formal terms is a large volume of color that at a distance will be seen as a unit, but at the time of displacement through the traffic circle these object units will be unveiled and transformed into objects with graphic drawings that allude to the signage, approx. The objects will use this visual language to construct their own symbolisms and forms, since they do not try to communicate anything specific, generating a kind of contradiction in the nature of the object.
Photo credits: Cristián Salineros F.