Dan Corson

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environmental site works

Trace Trace: 2001 Temporary Environmental Interaction. Clearcross Montana. Fluorescent water tracing dye is added to a river to make the invisible currents visible. This dye is safe for fish and wildlife but creates a beautiful and highly disturbing ephemeral gesture within the landscape. The color blue is a calming color that has been shown to reduce blood pressure as well as calm breathing and heart-rate. It stimulates the parasympathetic system and has anti-inflammatory and muscle relaxing effects. It can be used to assist in relaxation and fights physical and mental tension.  A blue environment has been demonstrated to make us more responsive to new ideas and increase creativity.  When people relax, they become more open to new ideas and can develop creative solutions to problems. Azul Healing Garden
Mahalapu Floats A timed exposure of the glass floats as they decended down the stream into the ocean. "15' d: water, propane flame: ©1991A site specific environmental sculpture of a 15 foot diameter ring with flames erupting up to 3 feet high. Lake Ring of Fire
Mandala 30' d: ©1989 3'h x 35'w x 2'd and lake Night Fire Swim
Veiled Aquifer Trace: 2001 Temporary Environmental Interaction. Clearcross Montana. Fluorescent water tracing dye is added to a river to make the invisible currents visible. This dye is safe for fish and wildlife but creates a beautiful and highly disturbing ephemeral gesture within the landscape. waterlines.3w Waterlines
Star Landing the cracked lakebed surface of the Blackrock Playa crop.spiral Spiral Flames
Rays Riverfront Park, Council Bluffs Iowa, 2013. Lawn, robotic lighting fixtures, dynamic pattern projectors, Infra red camera, doplar radar sensors, custom interactive software and hardware aqua.sheet.w Civita Residency
Tech.Waterscape Technology in Waterscape , Skowhegan Maine Consisted of 6-8 foot long fluorescent tubes 10 feet under water, 100 ft offshore that were colored the hue of blue bioluminescent water creatures. The tubes appeared to float 3" above the lake surface when the weather was calm. On other occasions, the light provided blue lightening like patterns, and when storms created swells, the waves were filled with volumes of blue light, and then returned to darkness. Post -Apocalypitc Mythos (WFS) , Black Rock Desert, Nevada. A temporary environmental installation created for the Burning Man Project in an expansive dry lakebed desert. Neon wave forms were top painted to focus blue and turquoise light into the sculpted troughs. Fire erupted from another rippling trough, and a red neon snake matched the other light emitting undulating forms. The imagery is from a mythology created for a previous exhibition in Prague- Jeskyne Ohniveho Draka (Grotto of the Flame Serpent) P. A. M.
Sensing WATER IMG_7271ingress2w
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