Saturday, October 22, 2016

Pearl Ave. department Library



Commissioned by using the metropolis of San Jose Public artwork program, workplace of Cultural Affairs
Lynn Goodpasture's solar Illumination 1: Evolution of Language (2008) on the Pearl road department Library consists of 4 art-glass home windows located in the children's place and a suspended glass lamp near the library front. The paintings's visible imagery refers to historical alphabets as the inspiration of the written word, which in flip is fundamental to libraries and illumination of the mind. each pane carries characters in exclusive scripts which might be the idea for written Latin, Russian, Vietnamese and some Indian languages. another vital however unseen factor to the paintings is the use of photovoltaic cells embedded inside the 4 glass panes that acquire solar electricity, supplying electricity to light the lamp. photo by using Lucas Fladzinski.

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