"The Dream of Simultaneous Connections" (1996) by Ned Smyth

DESCRIPTION: approx. 10,000 square-foot (200-foot by 50-foot) multiple-component installation consisting of:

  • three 20-foot high free-standing black and white painted steel sculptures

  • 8-foot high by 20-foot by 2-foot, 7-column, black painted steel sculpture with crushed granite landscape

  • approx. 20-foot by 25-foot black and white granite hardscape flanked by two rows of seven columnar shrubs

  • approx. 16-foot high by 20-foot diameter black painted steel canopy structure over a 4-foot diameter gold sphere sculpture

LOCATION: Victory Park, south side of Ocean Blvd. between S. Linden Ave. and S. Atlantic Ave., Long Beach, California, USA