Whirl Piece: Current Events
Artist
Ela Lamblin
MediumStainless steel, aluminum tubular bells
Dimensions18' x 10' x 10'
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineSeattle Parks and Recreation 1999 Community Center Levy 1% for Art funds
Description: The artwork is a gazebo-like structure that includes a stainless steel tubing framework, stainless steel dome, stainless steel wind catch and shaft, and aluminum tubular bells. The piece draws a visual and conceptual link to other public art works in the city that interact with the elements. Rain provides percussive punctuation on the stainless steel skin, and sounds emitted from the wind-turned aluminum slit gongs whirl about inside the dome.
Artist Statement: As Whirl Piece, a stainless steel, gazebo-like, musical and kinetic artwork, catches wind currents, it creates music that blends with the shifting aural and visual elements of the setting. Whirl Piece uses the tempo of the wind to draw attention to the march of time and to the ambient sounds of place. Passersby – like traffic and rustling leaves, unwitting associates in this confluence of weather and musical events – are drawn together by their common experience of participation in the art work. Like all my musical instrument/sculptures, Whirl Piece appeals to both the ear and the eye and, like them, to the soul and to the consciousness through thematic suggestions. Through this unique experience of wind currents, I hope to heighten people’s awareness of natural phenomena and of their mutual presence in this place.
Location: Yesler Terrace Park, 835 Yesler, Seattle WA 98122
Location: Yesler Terrace Park, 835 Yesler, Seattle WA 98122
