Pasadena’s Fork in the road is guerilla art installation
by Janette Williams
Pasadena Star News
November 3, 2009
Pasadena – Right where Pasadena and St. John avenues divide, there’s a fork in the road.
It’s about 18 feet tall and looks like stainless steel.
The fork’s appearance a few days ago, tines firmly stuck into a little Caltrans-owned median, was a bit of a mystery at first.
“It’s a guerilla installation,” guessed Rochelle Branch, the city’s cultural affairs manager, who oversees the public art program. “I don’t know if it’s through Caltrans, but it is clever.”
Caltrans spokeswoman Maria Raptis, who said Caltrans leases the small plot of land to the city, was equally baffled.
“Sometimes we do put art up. We have context-sensitive art off some freeways,” she said. “But I don’t know about this.”
And David Amronin, co-artistic director of Pasadena’s always edgy NewTown arts group – they describe themselves as “A Persistent Weed in The Garden of Art” – said it wasn’t his group. Continue reading “There’s a Fork in the Road in Pasadena”