Windswept — Charles Sowers
The Randall Museum in San Francisco has had a facelift with the installation of Charles Sowers Windswept. A facade of wind directional arrows (borrowed from the world of nautical navigation) allowing the facade to visually represent the forces of the wind. The project is a perfect example of Charles’s work, as the physical representation of elemental forces are Charles Sowers speciality. Anyone who has visited the San Francisco Exploratorium over the past fifteen years will have come across Charles’s work and hopefully, like me, been delighted and sent back to some child like reverie as I watch a basic force of physics explained to me via an interactive contraption or two. It’s as if Olafur Eliason came from a mechanical backgroun
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