We did a small walking tour of the San Jose Civic Center area yesterday and stumbled upon a display of sculptures behind the new (2005) city hall called the "Parade of Floats."Artist Andrew Leicester was commissioned to design an artwork to be located on North and South 5th Street that would create gateways and orienting elements for the Civic Center. He completed a procession of 16 sculptural “floats” recalling parades that exist in several world cultures, expressing the coming together of communities in celebration.
Local artists, historians, and community leaders selected the 16 final themes from more than 250 submitted ideas.
Pictured above is a detail from one of those floats, which is titled "High Technology."
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