The SH-9 West Bridge design celebrates the agricultural presence in Oklahoma by creating giant, life-like, bas-relief ears of corn spanning the parapet and piers, with wind current emanating from the corn and flowing out into the wing walls. The swirling wing pattern signifies the irrigated running water needed to feed this essential crop. A contemporary translation of traditional Chickasaw themes makes its way to the slope walls as well, which are treated with an overlapping spiral texture and stained in earth tones.
PROJECT INFO
PHOTOGRAPHER
Leonardo Manzo
CATEGORY
HIGHWAY WALLS
LOCATION
NORMAN, OK
PROJECT TEAM
Oklahoma Art in Public Places Division
Oklahoma Department of Transportation
City of Norman
Creative Form Liners, Inc.
Cobb Engineering
Carter & Burgess
Haskell Lemon Construction Co.
Manhattan Road and Bridge
