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Crepuscular Motion was an entry in the Freeway Park Association’s “The Clouds are Lifting” light festival. I had a second opportunity to address the design genius of the one of the park’s fountains. Installed as part of the parks original design by by Lawrence Halprin and Angela Danadjieva, the fountains are abstractions of cascading streams and falls, based on studies of real natural systems, and built in glorious, textured concrete.
Since the fountains don’t run in the winter, I was able to map onto a portion of the structure and run a program composed of a series of visual movements. I was inspired by light, cycling of the sun, the growth of spring, light out of darkness, and sparkly fun things. I used a combination of real footage of natural systems (mostly water) and some simple, generated light effects to highlight the forms, facets and shadows of the fountain.
The date of the event was, appropriately, delayed by rain.
