My design for the Foothill Gold Line Operations Campus art overlay was inspired by the Califonia Poppy. The first Spanish explorers sailing the coast of California in the eighteenth century called the region “a land of fire” noting the deep orange colored hillsides. It was only after the ships landed that it became clear that poppies were the source of the golden color giving California its state flower and motto, “the golden state”. The lobby mosaic is composed of 140,000 glass tiles and includes four variations of white and gold leaf providing a vibrant and active surface for the two story entry.