Public Science Art
Public Science Art is a series of proposals for large public sculptures that celebrate the beauty and complexity of some of the great discoveries in science. The hope is that public art like this will help to inspire people to become more informed about the world of science, and to see how their lives are affected by it everyday.
The Super Collider Pavilion is intended to symbolically refer to an actual high-energy particle accelerator such as the Large Hadron Collider built in Switzerland. The symbolic collision of particles is represented by the black spheres that hang on the ends of each of the white curved rods. The entire structure would be made of painted steel.
The Sun’s Space Time Warping Pavilion is a proposal for a large public art pavilion that celebrates the warping of space-time. The warping of space-time first proposed by Albert Einstein predicted the curvature of space-time by massive objects such as the sun, in his theory of general relativity.
The Sun’s Space-Time Warping Pavilion would be made of painted steel, with a concrete base. The black grid portion of the structure symbolically refers to the fabric of space-time being warped by the massive yellow object on top called, the sun. At the bottom of the portion of the grid that has been distorted, there is a place for visitors to sit around the tip of the distortion, and hopefully contemplate the wonders of the universe.
The Space Time Continuum Plaza is a proposal for a large public art installation inspired by some of the work popularized by Albert Einstein. The installation was formed around the rolling of 12 pairs of dice within the confines of a scale model of the central circular plaza. Each of the 12 dice rolls were plotted relative to the center support structure, and the surrounding enclosed plaza. The dice were then stacked sequentially and supported horizontally with rods to the center support column, in order to re-establish their original relative position in space and time, therefore creating a representation of a space time continuum. The structure is 62 feet tall, and each of the dice are 4 feet square. The support column and the dice are made of painted steel, and the circular plaza is made of cast concrete.
The DNA Monument is a conceptual proposal for a large painted steel public art sculpture, which symbolically represents a piece of a DNA molecule. It was designed to celebrate the importance of science in general, and specifically the importance and complexity of the DNA molecule. The actual structure of this piece of DNA molecule, which the sculpture was designed from, refers to part of the code needed to form the human eye. The visitors to the DNA Monument are therefore symbolically looking at what makes it possible for them to see the monument.
The gigantic size of the monument is intended to dramatize the beauty of the structure of DNA, as well as illustrate how its relatively small number of parts assembled into various combinations, direct the formation of all living things on our planet.
Status: Unbuilt
