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Title: TEST
TEST is a self-sustaining mobile temporary road sign, which says 'TEST' in 2 contrasting species of grasses chosen from the ditches and embankments that line the highway. The idea of the roadside sign is flipped as we provide a managed urban environment with uncontrolled elements. The sign is in the ditch and the ditch is in the sign. Language turns into landscape. As the grasses grow out, the word becomes blurred, exaggerating the already absurd nature of the project. This growing message becomes fuzzier with time, contradicting the idea of its form; that of the legible and information-imparting road sign. A piece of the urban control apparatus is transformed into its opposite; overgrown ditch, encroaching wilderness.
Legge Lewis Legge, (LLL), an interdisciplinary art, design and architecture group founded in 2001, consists of architect Murray Legge and cinematographer Deborah Lewis, both in Austin Texas, and New York City- based artist Andrea Legge.
LLL past projects include "Elevated Prairie", in Austin, Texas, completed in 2004. This permanent earthwork restores blackland prairie to the front lawn of an Austin Police Station and Forensics Lab in a weathering steel labyrinth of planters shaped like a fingerprint. "Unmanageable Hill", in 2005 added a temporary, 6-foot-high grassy hillock bound with strapping to a public park in Huntington, NY. " Cup City ", commissioned by Austin Green Art in Austin, Texas was a temporary interactive lounge created at the 2005 Austin City Limits Music Festival. The rented chain link fence panel structure was eventually filled with over 25,000 recycled cups and bottles. On New Year's Eve 2007, LLL participated in First Night Austin by installing "UP (Ultimate Pulse)" a temporary outdoor installation comprised of 1000 glowing Flashflight® (Frisbee-like) discs. LLL have been finalists in numerous art and design competitions and in 2005 the LLL entry entitled "Clear Approach" won an Honorable Mention in The Flight 93 9/11 National Memorial Competition in Shanksville, PA.
LLL are currently working on "The Lincoln Street Green Strip", a permanent project to rehabilitate a 1-acre strip of vacant land in Boston, MA . In June 2008, LLL will to participate in the 2008 International Garden Festival, a landscape design annual held at the Jardins de Metis, Reford Gardens, Grand-Métis, Québec, Canada .
LLL projects have been published in The Journal for Architectural Education, The Boston Globe, The Austin Chronicle, The Austin American Statesman, Art in America, Texas Architect magazine and WKUT Radio Austin. "Elevated Prairie" was selected by Art in America magazine for its 2004 'Top 20' Public Art in review, and " Cup City " won a 2006 Texas Society of Architects AIA Design Award and a 2007 AIA Austin Merit Award.
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