Shigeko Hirakawa



    Nature 5 - Spinning Ellipses
 
 
Spinning Ellipses 1992


- 5 elliptical lawns suspended among trees

(elliptical lawn : 300x200cm, 400kg, grass, iron plateau, sand)


- 5 elliptical bassins filled with water, spread out on the ground in a spiral form : 30m in length ;

water colored of fluorescein
(water, fluorescein, pvc,copper sheets)


Competition, Sculptors in the City
Homage to Gaudier-Brzeska
May 15 to June 28, 1992

Longues Allées Regional Parc
Saint-Jean-de Braye city, France

     
  sppining ellipses new page gazon
5 elliptical lawns suspended among trees

(elliptical lawn : 300x200cm, 400kg, grass, iron plateau, sand)
  spinning ellipses new page bassin
5 elliptical bassins filled with water, spread out on the ground in a spiral form : 30m in length

water colored of fluorescein

(water, fluorescein, pvc, copper sheets)

 
   

There are several spots in the form of
globes flattened at the poles.

They seem to revolve on a complex orbit
in the greenery.

You would like to come closer, but going
near one makes the others retreat.

You feel transported to a discovery of the
sumptuousness of the Universe.

(Text by Shigeko Hirakawa - from the
catalogue "Sculptors in the City" 1992)





spinning ellipses new page bassins generals
30m long