The Rainbow Spinner, created for the Minnesota Children’s Museum Tip Top Terrace, 2018
Description: The Rainbow Spinner does not have a battery, but a solar powered gear. It only spins when the sun is out, delighting all ages with the color changing on the pavement, created by one stationary and one moving color layer. For a 2 week residency, I had kiddos make shapes - viusalizing their star energy, and explained that we are all made, and everything on earth is made, but energy from our sun.
Installation view with no kiddo art attached yet
design sketch plan
an aluminum shape
adding some youth made energy shapes
what does energy look like?
i love making things
copper !
compare elements made in the stars
use energy to make art!
design thoughts
messages such as 'You have star energy" and Sun = Plants = Food = You
getting a rainbow tan