Field, 2011
Proposal created for the children’s entrance to the Denver Science Museum as one of a series of interactive works in the park site.
A field of aluminum tubes 2” in diameter forms a square of verticals set in a grid arrangement that one can walk through. The total area is 20 x 20’ with the poles being 20’ high and the interval between the verticals 2’. The verticals can be pushed to move and they can move in the wind. Embedded into holes that have been drilled through these vertical tubes are rods of polished polycarbonate. The holes have been drilled at a variety of angles to take advantage of the angle of the sun as it moves across the sky. The sun both shines through these rods and reflects off of the flat surfaces of them so discs of moving light bounce around the space. As the wind or people move them and as the sun shifts position, there are “bits” of light bouncing on the ground and walls around. At night, programmable LED lighting at the base of each tube means that the polycarbonate rods are illuminated and shifting color to appear as disembodied dots of light moving in response to the wind.
