SolarSonic Installation

SolarSonic by sculptor Ray King, inspired by the ancient Chinese “Bi,” the Neolithic jade discs, is a series of 14 lenses suspended within the terminal’s exterior glass canopy structure.

Images credit: Ray King



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The lenses with a central opening are graduated in size, and have one side with holographic light-refractive glass.The overall sculpture is 100-meter long.

The sculptor was also inspired by science fiction author, Sir Arthur Clark’s short story “Wind from the Sun,” about a spacecraft that was propelled by the power of sunlight.

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