Artist Cliff Garten's illuminating ‘Sea Spires’ Sculpture Brings Back Joy to the Landscape Long Beach, a city of many aesthetic wonders both natural and man-made, got another recently—something that seems a little of both. ‘Sea Spires,’ a trio of 16-foot-tall stainless steel towers illuminated at night by LED lights, appear at first to be alive. Their curvaceous pods suggest glistening sea creatures. Or perhaps they’re humanoids? They are “guardian-like,” the artist, Cliff Garten has suggested. The sculpture, commissioned by Long Beach Transit with the Arts Council of Long Beach, can be viewed near the marina at the corner of East Second Street and East Marina Drive. ‘Sea Spires,’ was inspired, like all of his work, Garten said in a recent interview, by “the site and what I’m working on at that particular time. Long Beach caught me in the middle of a series of stainless steel rods arranged around a volume that can be illuminated.” Continued... read more