This project was the brainchild of multidisciplinary artist Anna Mlasosky. I worked with her, taking her initial vision, turning it into a CAD model using Rhino with Grasshopper and Fusion 360, and then working with several manufacturers to produce the various parts.
The original seed of the design was a short poem Anna recorded, which she then traced as waveforms, generating the starting geometry for the piece.
The curves were twisted around a central axis, which would eventually become the lamp posts in Crossroads Park, Bellevue Washington.
I used Grasshopper to populate the twisted spines with the glass discs representing the waveform amplitudes.
Hardware to support the glass and connect the twisted tubes was designed in Fusion 360 and made by Xometry and Oshcut.
The twisted tubes were initially made with a freeform tube bender (CNC tube bending), but the company that did this was not able to hit their promised accuracy and some tubes had to be finished by hand.
Special Dichroic, laminated glass was sourced from Germany and installed onto the 3 sculptures.
