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My friend the wind - public sculpture in Wellington

26 Oct 2005
My friend the wind - Courtesy of NZ Listener 2005-10-29 by Sally Blundell The air space above Wellington's Post Office Square is about to go live. At the end of this month brilliant blue…

My friend the wind - Courtesy of NZ Listener 2005-10-29

by Sally Blundell

The air space above Wellington's Post Office Square is about to go live. At the end of this month brilliant blue tangles of light will shimmy up into the night sky like the electrified wake of a spacecraft. Poised between seven 11m-high stainless-steel poles, they will form an unearthly waymark of glass and argon gas visible from the city, the sea and the harbour.

My friend the wind

Image: Zephyrometer - the art of measuring wind by Phil Price, the 2nd commission in Wellington's wind sculpture project.My friend the wind - Courtesy of NZ Listener 2005-10-29

by Sally Blundell

The air space above Wellington's Post Office Square is about to go live. At the end of this month brilliant blue tangles of light will shimmy up into the night sky like the electrified wake of a spacecraft. Poised between seven 11m-high stainless-steel poles, they will form an unearthly waymark of glass and argon gas visible from the city, the sea and the harbour.

My friend the wind

Image: Zephyrometer - the art of measuring wind by Phil Price, the 2nd commission in Wellington's wind sculpture project.