Skies Painted with Unnumbered Sparks

'Skies Painted with Unnumbered Sparks' is a sculpture by Janet Echelman that has been installed outside the Vancouver Convention Centre for the... more

by Alexis Birkill

Title

Skies Painted with Unnumbered Sparks

Artist

Alexis Birkill

Medium

Photograph

Description

'Skies Painted with Unnumbered Sparks' is a sculpture by Janet Echelman that has been installed outside the Vancouver Convention Centre for the duration of TED2014.

The 745 foot long net is suspended above the area between the Convention Centre and Canada Place, and in a collaboration with Google, is lit by projectors that are controlled by the smartphones of visitors.

The piece is amazing to look at, and is impressively large, even more so given that it's only on display for a week.

Because of the short time it's on display in Vancouver, on this clear, cold night it was an extremely popular attraction, so getting an uncluttered shot was a challenge! I wanted to show the sculpture in the context of the city around it, so I photographed this from the north side of the sculpture, looking at the downtown buildings beyond.

The red lighting of the convention centre on the right made a nice contrast to the blue-purple of the sculpture, so I took this 2 row panorama to allow me to capture that, as well as the railing leading into the photo.

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March 21st, 2014