Socrates FOLLY 2015 HONORABLE MENTION

Star Talker sculpture, heliostat.

Socrates FOLLY 2015 – HONORABLE MENTION:

My entry to the Architectural League’s annual competition in Socrates Sculpture Park, has been chosen for honorable mention – a fun little project.

“Star Talker”
…53 million years ago, a stream of photons was born. Departing star 322495, outward bound for intergalactic space, they bent the infinite void beyond time. In the summer of the year 29333, on the fourth planet from the sun, a perihelic interceptor reached up, and through the perfection of absolute chance, diverted them from their arc, down, down, down into the darkness of the terrestrial paradise. In their turn, reaching up, the eyes of the creatures below received, and better came to understand, the texture of photodromic interstellarosity, and thereby their own place upon the continuum of the cosmic plane…