Paris Light Plumes

"Paris Light Plumes" © Stuart Williams 2009 All rights reserved. Place de l'Odeon / Paris, France This is an artist's proposal for a temporary public art work. Opposite the theater in Place de l'Odeon is a semi-circular array of four classical facades. Each of the facades is smoothly curved, and together they describe a clean and simple semi-circular enclosure to this urban space. It is a beautiful and elegant public space. Williams' concept envisions slowly undulating plumes of colored light, that would be computer-programed to gradually wash up and then down the four curved building facades. The pace of the rising and falling plumes of light, all moving in perfect unison, would be similar to slow breathing. . . as though the buildings — and the space they enclose — were in a Zen-like state of relaxed meditation. A sound component would add to and reinforce this feeling. A mix of sounds would be blended in a manner that would create rolling waves of sound. Says Williams, "I think of designing the visual component as writing a piece of music... but VISUAL music, reinforced by a sound score." All lighting would utilize energy-efficient LED technology. Who Stuart Williams is as an artist: Williams' work as a site-specific, environmental artist has been published and acclaimed around the globe. The Luminous Earth Grid project was an array of 2000 fluorescent lamps, which swept over the undulating landscape north of San Francisco like an immense glowing quilt. It covered an ...