California Avenue, California Native

Symbolic "Gateway" streetscape for City of Palo Alto.

Entry median strip native grasslands with wild flowers & Sierra granite stones.

Adjacent brick walks inset with 100 engraved poetic texts re "what isquintessential about California."

Text from 500+ entries in public contest.

Seven banners of native flora/fauna with "California" in their names (painted by André Singer Thompson).

One+ city block.

1997

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