The Blade @ Hull City of Culture
Not sure what you will make of this image, not altogether sure what I make of it.
I think it needs a little explanation. On the final night of the light instillation show after the crowds had gone home. The City of Culture organisers moved a huge rotor blade into Hulls Victoria Square without any advance publicity. Though it must have been long in the planning as it took over six hours to bring the blade from the Siemens factory to the centre of Hull. Images of it being transported I think were shown on national news channels.
Conceived by artist Nayan Kulkarni, Blade has been created for Look Up, a programme of temporary artworks created for the city’s public spaces and places. There is a strong link to Hull as the firm Siemens have only just opened a huge factory on the banks of the Humber to build the rotor arms for sea based wind turbines. A few facts, the blade is 75 metres long, 3.5m in diameter at the root and weighs 25 tonnes. It is made from a composite of fibreglass, balsa wood and resin; it is the world’s largest, handmade fibreglass component – cast as a single element.
So for the next two months it will fill the heart of Victoria square from Savile Street to Carr Lane, rising to a height of more than 5.5 metres at its tip, allowing double-decker buses to pass underneath it.
Photographing it proved quite difficult I took over 40 images and was only happy with this one. Trying to get the whole 75 meters in shot did not work so this just shows a section of The Blade. There are some light spots on it probably from all the spotlights in the square.
So what do I think: well its bold and imaginative and it transforms the space and the buildings in the square interestingly. I am reminded of the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris. I guess I have walked through the square millions of times in the course of the last sixty years and this does make you look at it afresh. It is also amazing to see the size of these things remember this is only one blade from the wind turbine
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The Blade @ Hull City of Culture
Not sure what you will make of this image, not altogether sure what I make of it.
I think it needs a little explanation. On the final night of the light instillation show after the crowds had gone home. The City of Culture organisers moved a huge rotor blade into Hulls Victoria Square without any advance publicity. Though it must have been long in the planning as it took over six hours to bring the blade from the Siemens factory to the centre of Hull. Images of it being transported I think were shown on national news channels.
Conceived by artist Nayan Kulkarni, Blade has been created for Look Up, a programme of temporary artworks created for the city’s public spaces and places. There is a strong link to Hull as the firm Siemens have only just opened a huge factory on the banks of the Humber to build the rotor arms for sea based wind turbines. A few facts, the blade is 75 metres long, 3.5m in diameter at the root and weighs 25 tonnes. It is made from a composite of fibreglass, balsa wood and resin; it is the world’s largest, handmade fibreglass component – cast as a single element.
So for the next two months it will fill the heart of Victoria square from Savile Street to Carr Lane, rising to a height of more than 5.5 metres at its tip, allowing double-decker buses to pass underneath it.
Photographing it proved quite difficult I took over 40 images and was only happy with this one. Trying to get the whole 75 meters in shot did not work so this just shows a section of The Blade. There are some light spots on it probably from all the spotlights in the square.
So what do I think: well its bold and imaginative and it transforms the space and the buildings in the square interestingly. I am reminded of the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris. I guess I have walked through the square millions of times in the course of the last sixty years and this does make you look at it afresh. It is also amazing to see the size of these things remember this is only one blade from the wind turbine
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT AND FOR TAKING THE TIME TO WRITE A COMMENT IT’S MUCH APPRECIATED.
IF YOU WANT TO FOLLOW MY STREAM I SUGGEST YOU OUGHT TO READ MY PROFILE FIRST