FACETED COLUMN
at wichita Riverfront stadium

Faceted Column is composed of nearly 5,000 faceted mirror surfaces that collect and recast images of the surrounding site. A viewers’ familiar understanding of the surrounding environment - landscape, sky, vehicular traffic, and human activity - is fractured, reassembled and re-presented within the systematic reflector layout to become isolated pixels of visual texture. This abstracted scene is recomposed across the multi-faceted tower surface with changing conditions of light, time and season to reveal the fluctuating temporal conditions of place. 

Art Advisor: Elizabeth Stevenson, SJCF Architecture
Artist: Derek Porter
Owner: City of Wichita
Structural Engineer: Genesis Structures, Inc.
Fabrication and Installation: Silvercrane LLC
Renderings & Diagrams: Tzu-Hao Kuo
Photographer and Videographer: Derek Porter
Video Editor: Michael Sacca Productions
Drone Photographer: Drone_tography

Details
Fall 2020 installation
McLean Entry Plaza, Wichita Riverfront Stadium
Wichita, Kansas
Aluminum framework, stainless steel tension cables, polished stainless steel formed reflectors
Concrete Base: 1’-6” tall, 10’ wide, 20’ long
artwork: 30’ tall, 6’ diameter