Engine Co. No. 28

At Engine Co. No. 28 we pay homage to the courage and heroism of our Los Angeles firefighters.

We enlarged a striking historical photo from the LAFD archive to a larger-than-life scale and cut it into vertical strips. We laminated it to one side of a triangular corrugated surface and painted the opposite side fire-engine red to create a three-dimensional lenticular surface.

The resulting pattern and rhythm animate the long concourse while the monumental image stands above the concourse’s visual clutter to literally point the way to the entrance. As one moves in either direction, the image fades from one’s peripheral vision, like a distant memory, into a field of color.