Pinnacle Peak - Extracting Shadows
Artist Team: Heidi Dauphin and Nina Solomon
2009 to present (in progress)
Scale: H 8’ x L 1116’
Materials: Poured in place concrete wall with form liners
Project Budget: $500,000
Description: The project consists of nature inspired silhouettes
applied to the front face of the 8’ security walls surrounding the new
Pinnacle Peak Reservoir in Phoenix. By sorting, extracting, editing,
and choosing from desert plant shadows, we developed simple, natural
graphics to apply to the reservoir wall. We will soften a extremely
long wall with natural imagery in silhouette form, contrasting these
patterns with repeated panels of rusted metal for textural variety.
Shadows patterns of desert plants and trees seem to fall across the
wall, but are in fact embedded into the design of the wall through the
use of form liners. The large shadow images will be viewed from the
street 50-90 feet away. The gates will be created with the same imagery
in laser cut rusted metal panels. (site drawings by Michael Alexander
in CAD)
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Extracting Shadows
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Extracting Shadows
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