Artist : Ball-Nogues Studio
Three swooping brushstrokes, each a different color, span from the top of the Anschutz Health Sciences Building to just above the ground floor, then spring upward along the other side of the stair to form an enormous U-shaped gesture that envelopes the stair landings. The strokes figuratively and literally connect the disparate intellectual disciplines that are housed on each floor of the building; giving form to the collaborative mission that inspired the Anschutz Health Sciences Building. The chains curve under the force of gravity to form “catenaries.” In mathematics, a catenary is the shape made by a chain hanging between two points. The form of the work will appear differently depending on the viewer’s vantage point. When looking through the chains, they
will generate moiré patterns. From one angle, the viewer sees a set of parallel catenary lines; from another angle, she sees a wildly unpredictable pattern by way of moire.