Created and Sold by Tonya Hart
Solar Fields (Winter Fields) - Public Sculptures
Featured In Ontario Place Corporation, Toronto, Canada
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In designing a sculpture installation for the Ontario Place Winter Festival, I took inspiration from the sun. The presence of sun in winter is always a cherished sight; bringing warm and memories of summer into view. During the Canadian winter the sun is often perceived as low, dim and distant behind forever grey clouds. Many people don’t realise that the earth’s perihelion, meaning closest to the sun, occurs during winter. The earth’s aphelion (furthest distance from sun) is actually during summer. It is the earth’s axis which accounts for seasonal fluctuation. This year the earth’s perihelion will take place on January 3, 2018 at the same time as Ontario Place Winter Festival. Winter Fields highlights the sun’s proximity to the earth during winter to become a point of discovery, vitality and brilliance for festival goers.
Winter fields will take the shape of magnetic fields. Much like the magnetic fields that radiate from the sun’s surface, Winter fields will appear to emerge from sunspots in a burst of energy. The fields themselves will be made with stainless steel and acrylic rods. During the day the sculpture will appear as static motion – like icicles formed out of the earth’s magnetism frozen in place. Then at night, LEDs charge light through the rods in a blaze of color. The magnetic fields will be bright against the winter night, glowing yellow and orange and red. The aim will be to portray light as elemental: as a source of energy.
Winter fields will take the shape of magnetic fields. Much like the magnetic fields that radiate from the sun’s surface, Winter fields will appear to emerge from sunspots in a burst of energy. The fields themselves will be made with stainless steel and acrylic rods. During the day the sculpture will appear as static motion – like icicles formed out of the earth’s magnetism frozen in place. Then at night, LEDs charge light through the rods in a blaze of color. The magnetic fields will be bright against the winter night, glowing yellow and orange and red. The aim will be to portray light as elemental: as a source of energy.
Item Solar Fields (Winter Fields)
Created by Tonya Hart
As seen in Ontario Place Corporation, Toronto, Canada
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