Gravity Field

Artist’s Introduction:

Gravity Field is a large hanging volume of colorful kapok flowers. The piece is meant to evoke ancient hanging gardens and how they contributed organic washes of color and light to the architecture they hung from. The overall form of the piece is made of a series of interconnected branching volumes that twist, turn and in at various levels giving the appearance of a vortex of flowers frozen in time. On one hand the volume of the piece appears to be randomly frozen in motion, but the geometry of the form is precisely calibrated to allow views across the various floors as well as framed views that emerge as shoppers travel up the levels of escalators. This form uses a gravity based simulation to engineer a structural stable geometric surface. The hanging surface is made of an aluminum net assembled with over 3000 custom laser cut aluminum modules. This hanging net is clad with a color spectrum of abstracted three dimensional kapok flowers folded out of translucent film. The array of flowers cast and reflect colored light around and through the neutral spaces of the atrium. Through this combination of entwined geometry and light, the installation is designed to create a visual vibrancy that comes from the embrace of geometry, materials, and light.