Tides

Permanent Installation — University of San Francisco

Carved in Carrara marble and set on a Bardiglio marble base, Tides was installed on the university's Lone Mountain campus in 2019. The project was delivered from concept through permanent installation: stamped structural engineering, an engineered concrete footing, stainless steel pinning, transportation, and a crane-assisted setting coordinated with a professional rigging crew.

Site: University of San Francisco, Lone Mountain
Type: Permanent institutional installation
Material: Carrara marble; Bardiglio marble base
Dimensions: 48 × 55 × 53 in
Scope: Sculpture, custom stone base, structural engineering, foundation coordination, transportation, rigging, and installation
Fabrication: Italy / California
Installation: Crane-assisted permanent installation, 2019

Permanent collection, University of San Francisco

Listed in Public Art Archive

Tides was discussed before its installation in “The Sculptor Who Reconceives Classical Myths”, a 2019 profile of Yoko Kubrick in T Magazine.

Read the University of San Francisco institutional record.

The terrace before and after installation

The Lone Mountain terrace at the University of San Francisco before the installation of Tides — Before

The Lone Mountain terrace at the University of San Francisco after the permanent installation of Tides — After

Tides suspended by crane during permanent installation at the University of San Francisco

Crane-assisted installation on the Lone Mountain campus

Tides being lowered precisely onto its stone base

Setting the sculpture onto its Bardiglio marble base

Stone pedestal being installed over the prepared foundation

Base installation over the engineered footing

Structural engineering section drawing for the Tides installation, showing the sculpture, base, pinning, and concrete footing

Structural engineering and foundation documentation for permanent installation

Yoko Kubrick on site coordinating the installation with the rigging crew

On site with the rigging crew during installation

Tides installed at the University of San Francisco

Tides — drone film, University of San Francisco

Tides at dusk on the Lone Mountain campus, with sunset light passing through the sculpture

Tides at dusk — University of San Francisco

Photography: Natalie Schrik

Le Petit Trianon

San Francisco Decorator Showcase · 2019

Six marble sculptures were integrated throughout the redesigned garden at Le Petit Trianon in collaboration with Zeterre Landscape Architecture and DZINE. The nine-foot marble sculpture Lethe, carved in Pietrasanta, anchors the principal garden axis.

Site: Le Petit Trianon · San Francisco, California
Presentation: San Francisco Decorator Showcase, 2019
Scope: Six marble sculptures integrated throughout the garden
Collaboration: Zeterre Landscape Architecture · DZINE
Principal work: Lethe · nine-foot marble sculpture
Fabrication: Pietrasanta, Italy

Formal parterre garden at Le Petit Trianon with Yoko Kubrick's marble sculpture Lethe anchoring the central axis

Lethe on the principal garden axis at Le Petit Trianon

Yoko Kubrick's monumental marble sculpture Lethe at the 2019 San Francisco Decorator Showcase

Lethe installed in the formal parterre

Wide view of the sculpture garden at Le Petit Trianon showing Lethe within the garden geometry and surrounding landscape

Sculpture within the redesigned garden

Lethe being positioned by crane during installation at Le Petit Trianon

Crane-assisted placement of Lethe

Sculpture installation and site-coordination plan for the Le Petit Trianon garden

Sculpture placement and site-coordination plan

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