Meredith SK

Grant-winning sculpture for Coachella  2012. I designed the patterned steel plates making up the sculpture, CNC plasma cut and welded into great columns. The design was an algorithmically generated pattern based on classic Islamic geometry, manipulated to a more organic, flowing pattern. The design captured rotational symmetry while becoming something new and organic- complimenting the severe, angular towers that gracefully wove through the air. Four 30-foot towers bob, bow, wave and move in fluid motion, slowly undulating like blades of grass underwater. The towers are illuminated from within by full color LEDs and by fire at the apex. The sculpture waves across five thirty-foot arcs creating a ripple of fire lighting up the desert sky. WAVE is the world’s tallest wave generator, constructed from towers that dance on the horizon. Four towers, each incorporating six axes’ of movement, controlled in unison by a computer to bring it alive and ripple above the participants’ heads.