Chinatown, San Francisco
1340 Powell Street
Fire Station #2
When you are in the building trades you realize that building parts can be art too. For most people, however, they are just that, parts. In the case of this fire station, Al Wong has added art that is whimsical, appropriate, and yet truly probably missed by most people that walk by.
This is etched out of the glass in the jut out on the left, when the sun is right it paints clouds on the ground below.
The bay markers also reflect “clouds”
Al Wong graduated with an MFA in 1971 from San Francisco Art Institute, and is now a professor there. This piece installed in 1994 of Ceramic Frit Marquee Glass is owned by the City of San Francisco and was Commissioned by the SF Art Commission for the San Francisco Fire Department.