May 222011
Embarcadero at Pier 14
“Raygun Gothic Rocketship” is a temporary art installation on the Embarcadero. The project is sponsored by the Black Rock Arts Foundation, (the Burning Man group), with support from the Port of San Francisco. The rocket ship is a retro-futurist sort of thing, and according to the artists group “A critical kitsch somewhere between The Moons of Mongo and Manga Nouveau”.
The piece is the work of dozens of Bay Area artists with three lead artists headed by Sean Orlando. They have a website that is really, really cool. It tells you all about the rocket ship and how to rent or even buy it if you are so inclined.
This area of the Embarcadero is near the foot of Mission Street and Pier 14.
What an unusual sculpture. I would enjoy seeing it in person in a public place such as is pictured here, but I don’t know that I would want to own it.
Have a great week!
Definitely a fun website…fun sculpture!
It looks like a bomb to me!