de young museum
San Francisco, California
Inspired by the technical drawings and geometric forms of the mural Between Sign and Subject by Matt Mullican, Eclipse is geometry in motion. A deconstructed sphere rotating and continually “eclipsing” itself, it confronts the viewer with different overlapping perspectives of two halves of a whole.
B Y T H E N U M B E R S
Size 14 feet diameter
Weight 1200 pounds
10,000 flowers, including gerbera, roses, dianthus, anthuriums, and orchids
500 feet of aluminum welded into a spherical structure
60 pounds of sisal fiber
1,200 feet of colored string
Photography by Christina McNeill. Video by Happy Kihlgren.