MWWF

Champaign, Illinois 

MWWF is a small scale study for a proposed contemplative museum installation. The original concept was to use concealed Drinking Birds to generate surface disruptions in a transparent vessel of backlit water.  In application, we determined that the drinking birds had physical and maintenance limitations for a long-term installation. The birds were replaced with more reliable aquarium pumps. These were inserted into transparent plastic storage bins, mounted above LED work light mounted to adjustable tripods.  

The bounding box for the installation was created from recycled hollow core doors. Through empirical effort, we determined the optimum location for pumps and lights, resulting in a simple but effective meditative water projection, To complete the experience, the Up 1 chair (Gaetano Pesce, 1969) provided the appropriate semi-supine relaxation experience for a single person.