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10' diameter 17.5' h
material: steel, aluminum, copper, laboratory equipment and glass, LED’s, backprint film.
architect: Durrant Phoenix
site: Phoenix Police Forensic Crime Laboratory
commissioned by the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture Public Art Program
Pattern Recognition, a new sculpture for the Phoenix Police Crime Lab, is a surrealistic chandelier that pays homage to the art of forensic science.
Held together by an anarchic armature of steel rods and laboratory clamps, the artwork contains hundreds of glass beakers, flasks, test tubes, pipettes and other elegant tools of the forensics trade. Interspersed among this array of real-life equipment are scores of artist-made forms, among them molecular models of drugs, fingerprints, DNA strands, implausible conflations of lab glass, pop cultural references to police work, and over 130 magnifying glasses.
Approximately 10 feet in diameter and18 feet high, the piece is suspended from the lobby ceiling by forty posts at the base of which are backlit Petri dishes holding graphic references to the lab’s investigative specialties, as well as additional LED’s.
The work’s title, Pattern Recognition, describes a common and recurrent theme in scientific investigation. As the title suggests, the artwork itself is a mystery to solve. Seen from the side and from an adjacent balcony, it appears to be a chaotic array of unrelated parts. From directly below, the overhead cluster of colors, forms and lights falls into a clear concentric pattern of imagery depicting the clues that forensic scientists encounter in the course of cracking criminal cases.
The dynamic between frenzied and orderly viewpoints serves as an esthetic metaphor for the lab’s mission, where in the applied study of human pathology specialists share expertise in the course of evolving a comprehensive understanding of crime.
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Saw this kitten in Indiana - what a fascinating fur pattern! Reminds of a Maine Coon - the mom cat's fur looks like the fur behind this kitten's ear.
12.22.2010
oooh, it might make nice wrapping paper as well.
oh, and thanks to Mike McCaffrey for the pattern: www.flickr.com/photos/mccaffry/3402556785/in/set-72157623...
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A sampling of my PlanetJune crochet patterns
1. crocheted Christmas tree (green), 2. crocheted ring-tailed lemur, 3. amigurumi alpacas, 4. crochet paint, brush & palette set, 5. AquaAmi Set 1 (view 1), 6. crocheted corgi, 7. crocheted gecko, 8. crocheted sea turtle, 9. fuzzy penguin (view 1), 10. amigurumi guinea pigs, 11. crocheted african violets, 12. fuzzy bears, 13. crocheted fruit bat, 14. AfricAmi! Elephant, Hippo, Rhino, 15. Reindeer, Snowman, Elf - Christmas PocketAmi, 16. crocheted dinosaurs, 17. crocheted red fox, 18. crocheted monkeys, 19. amidogs set 4, 20. fuzzy lambs
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