As daylight wanes on this Winter Solstice ❄️, we're thinking back on
#PAFartist James Yamada's illuminating 2008 exhibition "Our Starry Night".
Built from powder coated aluminum and punctuated with 1,900 colored LED lights in centralparknyc's Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Yamada's twelve-foot-tall sculpture acted as an interactive passageway into the park. As visitors walked through the sculpture, they triggered a metal detector that activated the LED lights that perforate the exterior of the sculpture. At all hours of the day and night, it illuminated in response to each person individually.
The sculpture is currently on view in the maca.fundacionpabloatchugarry's Sculpture Park in Uruguay.
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"Our Starry Night," 2008
Presented in Doris C. Freedman Plaza April 28–October 28, 2008
📸 by: Seong Kwon