Fluttering Silver Cloud Hovers Over Los Angeles Square
Pershing Square in Los Angeles is getting a second look this week with the addition of a surreal glittering silver cloud that undulates in the air above the concrete, seemingly floating without any supports. Tethered from a 10-story purple bell tower to a lower corner of the park, the latticework installation is made of thousands of holographic mylar strips that flutter in the breeze. The work is a collaboration between Patrick Shearn of Poetic Kinetics and the AA Visiting School of Los Angeles, a week-long design program for art students.
Poetic Kinetics is known for creating many of the massive, colorful creations that appear at Burning Man each year. Sharon says he was inspired by nature and “the feeling that we are only aware on a very surface level of what is really going on around us. We feel the currents of air on our skin but do not see the larger movements.”
Unfortunately I missed seeing this. :-(
Friday, August 5, 2016
The Lost Mushroom Masterpieces
How an obscure woman mycologist left her mark on fungi.
