Light Storm, 2005
Light Storm was commissioned
by the Mesa Center for the Arts in Mesa, Arizona and was installed
in 2005. The work covers over 27,000 square feet and is comprised
of over 35,000 stainless steel discs that have been set into the paving
stones of the theater lobbies and the outside courtyard. It is as
if a wind had caught the discs as if they had fallen from the metal
shade screen (an artwork by Ned Kahn) and blown them in a pattern
two vortices that flow throughout the landscape inside and outside
of the building. The discs are set flush with the stone surface and
have no mass, but reflect the light and color of the surroundings,
changing as the light changes and the viewer moves through the space.