"On Saturdays" by Robbert Flick at Expo Park/USC

On April 28, 2012, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority will unveil a historic new light rail expansion -- and with it a new work of public art by USC professor Robbert Flick.

On Saturdays will grace the Expo Park/USC stop just meters from the USC Roski School of Fine Arts, where Flick has worked since 1976. The piece consists entirely of images taken in the USC University Park neighborhood on Saturday mornings from 2007 to 2009.

Arranged in a grid like a long moving strip, the images are familiar terrain for the residents of Los Angeles, the daily backdrop of living in this city. But they are also irretrievably lost moments, fragments of another day — the constantly changing skyline and glimpses of people heading to somewhere else, mimicking the experience of gazing out of a train window.

On Saturdays by Robbert Flick was commissioned by LACMTA.

Installation photographs by Matthew Horne and John Richardson. Interview by Suzanne Wu.

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