Though Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate for Chicago's Millennium Park may seem a bit fetched as a model for Victor Steinbrueck, there's something in its sculptural magnetism that seems potentially instructive.
Beyond all the other 'solutions' for Victor Steinbrueck Park's problems lies the basic human issues of meaning & connection. As it exists now, Victor Steinbrueck Park represents a cultural cul de sac, a sort of 'end of the road' or dead end where enclaves of tourists, homeless, recent immigrants and neighborhood denizens stake out various 'turfs'. People seem to observe each other but rarely interact outside their own group. There is no 'icebreaker' so to say.
Could an artwork that invites engagement help provide such socializing function? Could art help reshape people's behavior?
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