Lauren Halsey unveils the design for a monumental sculpture park in South L.A.

For 17 years Lauren Halsey has dreamed of creating a monumental work of installation art for — and about — her South Los Angeles neighborhood, and on Monday she released the first renderings for the project, which has grown into a public sculpture park scheduled to open next spring.

Construction has already begun on the project, titled “sister dreamer, lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles…” Read more at the Los Angeles Times.