

Client: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts / San Francisco Planning Department
Location: San Francisco, CA, United States
Completion date: 2016
Artwork budget: $2,500
Project Team
Artist
Adam Marcus
Variable Projects
Client
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Client
San Francisco Planning Department

Overview
Glimmer is a dynamic installation for San Francisco’s Market Street that invites passersby to enter, touch, and interact with a plush thicket of colorful suspended filaments. These strands, consisting of colored paracord suspended from a simple steel and wire mesh canopy, are cut at varying lengths to form a single volume. The form of Glimmer reinterprets the notion of a masonry vault—typically heavy, solid, and static—as a light, porous, and highly dynamic structure.
Goals
The project was selected in an international design competition for the Market Street Prototyping Festival, a 3-day public exhibition along Market Street in San Francisco. It was installed on the public sidewalk along Market Street in San Francisco's downtown financial district for three days in October, 2016.
Process
Variable Projects worked closely with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and San Francisco Planning Department to make sure the project conformed with all public codes and regulations.