Growing up as a skateboarder, although far away from Philadelphia, i'm pretty sure you also will know the famous Love Statue from Robert Indiana. The park around became one of the most iconic skatespots in history and had a great impact in the career of quite few world famous skateboarders. Stevie Williams is just one example and the influence on street skating and upcoming skateparks was huge. If you don't skate, you might not be familiar with Love Park. But most people will recognize Robert Indiana's iconic Love statue that has overlooked the park since 1976. The space was originally designed in the 1960s by Edmund Bacon (father of actor Kevin Bacon) as a public park. Years later in the '70s and '80s, the space became very run down and was mostly frequented by drug dealers or homeless people. Not long after it was slowly adopted by skateboarders because it was loaded with tons of amazing architecture to skate. The energy brought in by the skaters slowly pushed out a lot of the sketchy people. The park eventually became a staple for skateboarding in the city and an iconic space for skateboarding worldwide. Many big pros build their careers and images off Love Park, and some of the most notable skate videos ever were filmed there. As it gained popularity, skateboard tourism became a thing, with people traveling from all over the world to skate at Love. The city became increasingly hostile to skateboarding in the park. In 2018 the city redesigned the park to a boring concrete oval, ending the legacy of skateboarding at LOVE. The new park is painfully bland and void of people. A citizen on the Philly Voice described the park as "an enormous sidewalk" saying that she gets "a case of the Mondays walking through it". But the city won the battle, there will be no more skateboarding in Love Park. This NFT is a dedication to this time and place and last but not least a dedication to Robert Indiana. It's a FUll HD MP4 CGI Timelapse created with 3ds Max and rendered with Vray.