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A Landmark: From the Building by Unchung Na There are representative buildings in every city. The Wells Fargo Bank Building was Berkeley’s first true “skyscraper” and people recognize it as a landmark even now. If it is so, what is the meaning of this landmark in Berkeley? First skyscraper, bank, red brick building in crowded streets, what else? I photographed the relationship between the building and its context. I focused on the building’s setting which could be said to be a micro subject—a center-line on a parking garage, the weeds in an empty lot, the small wood crossbeams on the construction site and the steel structure in a street. I tried to erase the visible shape of the Wells Fargo Building to find the external meaning of the landmark, using little things around and about, not the subject itself. This observation allows me to see the meaning of “relation”, and I can see that an existence cannot absolutely stand alone, but comes into being only in mutual effects with surrounding elements.  |
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