Unexpectedly Difficult Art

The installation above has been in the Pier A plaza for several months. The glass lenses are clear but refract light when it passes through at oblique angles; since the steel is curved, every lens has a unique angle and the colors created by the lenses vary greatly at any time.

It’s fascinating to me how difficult it is to get a photo of the effect. If you click on the photo above to expand it, you’ll see a bit of color in a handful of the lenses. The effect I saw at that moment was that every lens was brightly lit with color. There’s something deeply satisfying about a work of art that looks better to the human eye than it does to a camera.