The Trumpet Flower – Infinitarium
UPDATE: This Project is currently installed on San Francisco’s Market Street, across from UN Plaza.
KTVU San Francisco did video coverage of the installation.
The Infinitarium is an organic interactive space that engages people on many levels. The scale of this playful garden is exaggerated, making visitors feel part of the landscape. During the day, different aspects of the piece offer cooling water and misting effects and a shady retreat from the sun. After dark, the fire, water and light effects explode into a brilliant color and light show.
The trumpet flower piece itself engages the visitor from just above head level with a menacing stance that simultaneously intrigues and unsettles. The piece interacts with the visitor by blowing smoke rings from a toroidal cannon inside the flower. When standing in the path of the rings the piece reaches out to the viewer with a gentle puff of smoke
PROJECT INVOLVEMENT:
Executed lead artist’s vision and maintained an aesthetic dialogue as the piece took its final two-story shape. Integrated structural mounts and access panels into the design for incorporation of pyrotechnics and accompanying electronics. Coordinated volunteer labor.
The flowers among the rest of the garden at night.
front view of both the flowers
Me adding the skinning to one of the flowers.
Attaching the flowers to the stem for the first time. Check out the amount of deflection!
With Eghan, the lead artist on the flowers, after the install at Burning Man 2010.
