![]() ![]() Janet Echelman talks about her work as a way of representing “softness in a large scale”, a softness that the spectator feels when the composition comes to life thanks to the wind. It has a magnetic power, hypnotic when it moves with the wind, the same air moves our hair, also makes us feel that we are one with the world it’s all connected. This floating sculpture vibrates with the wind and plays with the light that makes its colors shine: oranges, reds, magentas, and purples, creating a dance of waving colors that change with the sunlight throughout the day. With this urban sculpture, she makes us reflect about the notion that we are all connected between Earth’s natural systems. The artist transformed that information into art. Studio Echelman produced the 3D shape of the sculpture using groups of information regarding the height of the tsunami’s waves throughout the entire Pacific Ocean. The vibrations altered Earth’s mass and accelerated its rotation, reducing the duration of that March 11. In fact, its title, 1.78, is referring to the microseconds that the Earth’s rotation shortened the day of the earthquake and later tsunami in Japan, 2011. The sculpture is part of the Earth Time Series that the artist started in 2010 to reflect about time in a large scale. ![]() Plaza Mayor offers the space for this in-suspension work with Madrid’s sky as a background. The installation was made of a mesh with layers of tangled and knotted technical fiber of 45 meters long by 35 meters wide by 21 meters high, combined with a spectacular lighting. The artist Janet Echelman was in charge of the last intervention and you can visit it from February 9 to February 19. The Madrid Four Seasons program has filled Plaza Mayor with urban art installations to celebrate their IV centenary. ![]()
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