Recently, a public art installation made completely of lights was set up in Madison Square Park. The artist, Jim Campbell, calls his new piece “Scattered Lights”, and the title speaks for itself. With seemingly no pattern or rhythm, 1,600 of hanging light bulbs suspend from seemingly nowhere, for seemingly no reason.
Using stock footage from Grand Central, the lightbulbs, which are outfitted with LEDs, flicker on and off, resulting in what seems like shadows passing over a thin curtain. Although this installation is probably only going to last a few days (the article makes no mention of how long it should last), I can definitively say that if “Scattered Lights” is still standing in MSP, I’m probably going to make it my one-page essay.
(article via the Huffington Post)
