Director Park, Portland, Oregon
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Mercurial Sky, 2010, Portland OR, Integrated LED lighting, video controller, playback content
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In downtown urban park devoid of “nature” and plant material, the specialty lighting added to the giant canopy lights up the park at night with a series of ultra low-resolution videos capturing the movement of natural sequences (eg:moving water, a breeze moving branches, fire, clouds, pulsating jellyfish). Looking from a distance or watching reflections in windows compresses the movement into discernible form.
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Special thanks to RAAC, Kristen Calhoun, Keith Lachowicz, Miles Cirillo, The Benya Burnett Consultancy, ZGF , OLIN Landscape Architecture