Reflecting the Stars
Jon Morris has been a theater producer, social entrepreneur, champion springboard diver—and an artist, in which last capacity he serves as director of New York-based arts collective The Windmill Factory. Since 2007, he and a band of likeminded collaborators have conceived and crafted a series of elaborate public projects, ranging from a grassy 30-foot-tall slide in the Nevada desert to a multi-media performance piece on themes of atomic destruction.
The group’s newest endeavor is “Reflecting the Stars.” Located just off the shore of Manhattan’s West Side in the Hudson River near Bethune Street, two-hundred seventeen solar-fed LED light capsules, lashed to defunct shipping-pier posts, mimic the natural night sky above light-polluted New York. Users can punch up different constellations using a purpose-built console fixed to the walkway railing. The project was two years in the making, and it made its debut August 31st with a subdued sundown function for some forty-odd attendees scattered on picnic blankets near the riverbank. “It was just a beautiful night,” said Morris.
Selected piers feature 217 solar powered LED lights atop them.
Spectators gather to observe the installation on opening night.
"Reflecting the Stars" runs from sunset to midnight at Pier 49 in the Hudson River Park and closes October 25th, 2011.
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