Flock Wall Locations

The impressiveness of a flock of birds is the seemingly chaotic and random assembly that is governed by instinct, communication, and group interaction, along with four distinct flocking conditions: dormancy, departure, flight, and arrival.

Dormancy is the condition that best represents the birds while on the ground. Departure is a momentary condition prior to flight as a reaction to fear or surprise. Flight is the density that shapes space and arrival is the dissolution of density.

In selecting the locations it was paramount that the sites provide the opportunity for each flocking condition in order for the Flock Wall to be as reactive and interactive with the immediate context.

The Santa Monica Board Walk south of the pier provides this opportunity as pedestrian density is constantly fluctuating, allowing the flock wall to be in a state of dormancy, departure, flight, and arrival.

Black Rock Desert, venue to the Burning Man festival, provides a platform of contrast between the lifeless context of the desert and surrealism of constructed nature.