CIVIC.SPACE

The public art of Marek Walczak & Wes Heiss

SITELINES

9 sculptures based on iconic buildings in Philadelphia. Each distorted piece is located at the perimeter of Love Park, in the direction of the building it represents, and only comes into undistorted focus when you stand in the direction the building is located.

Love Park with trajectories of the 9 buildings that inform the piece.
The plan of Love Park with 9 sculptures at the perimeter, each located in the direction of the building they are based on. Each building has a story to tell about the city, they are each different philosophies of city and social life.
Corrected perspective of church
Plan of sculpture location with footsteps embedded in the ground to indicate the non-distorted viewpoint, which also is the direction of the church from the park.
Old Swedes Church
The Museum of Art
This undistorted view is only perfect when you stand on the footprints embedded in the ground.
Plan of the museum sculpture in the park, showing the sculpture and the footprints embedded in the ground. The dashed line represents the direction the art museum is located.
The undistorted view of the Comcast Tower
Plan showing embedded footprints for an undistorted view of the Tower. Which also doubles as a charging station.
The distorted Comcast tower.
The distorted Eastern State Penitentiary

SITELINES was a finalist proposal for The City of Philadelphia’s Percent for Art Program, 2015.

The undistorted penetentiary
Plan showing footprints to stand in to see undistored view.