1.26, Janet Echelman's sculpture for the Biennial of the Americas in Denver last year.
from Janet's site:
The City of Denver asked the artist to create a monumental yet temporary work exploring the theme of the interconnectedness of the 35 nations that make up the Western Hemisphere. She drew inspiration from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s announcement that the February 2010 Chile earthquake shortened the length of the earth’s day by 1.26 microseconds by slightly redistributing the earth’s mass. Exploring further, Echelman drew on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) simulation of the earthquake’s ensuing tsunami, using the 3-dimensional form of the tsunami’s amplitude rippling across the Pacific as the basis for her sculptural form.
Janet is also working on a project proposal for Philadelphia's Dilworth Plaza, adjacent to City Hall. Functioning as a continuous X-ray of the city's circulatory system, Echelman's artwork will trace above ground the pathways of the three subway lines which run beneath the plaza. The movement will occur in real time, using a data feed of train arrival and departure. The pathways will be drawn in 5-ft-tall curtains of atomized water illuminated by layers of colored light. Neat!
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