SELECTED WORK

Convergence

2010        56' high, 18' diameter

material: silver painted steel
site: Lindsay-Flanigan Courthouse, Denver Justice Center, Denver, CO
fabrication and installation oversight: Mike Mancarella, Junoworks, Denver, CO
CAD modeling: Michael Born, Boston, MA
lighting design: Roger Smith, Roger Smith Lighting Design, Phoenix, AZ
engineering: Charles Keyes and Katie Schmidt, Martin/Martin, Denver, CO
architects: Klipp, Denver, CO
commissioned by the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs
photographs by Clements/ Howcroft

The site is the east atrium of the new Denver Justice Center, where potential jurors enter the courthouse.

Convergence is a diaphanous funnel-shaped filigree composed of 1,344 human profiles. (There are twelve jurors on a typical jury, and the silhouettes are multiples of twelve Denver citizens representing a variety of ages and ethnicities.)

While visible from all parts of the five-story space, the sculpture is most compellingly experienced from the ground floor entry. Here, looking up, one is immersed in an optical vortex as the ascending silhouettes converge and overlap.