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I JUST HOPE IT BECOMES A CAR LIGHT THAT'S
MY GREATEST HOPE BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER I DESIGN EVERY PIECE OF IT IT'S NEVER THE SAME
PIECE WHEN THE WIND BLOWS AND THE COLORS CHANGE MY NAME IS JANET ECHELMAN AND THIS IS MY ARTWORK
IT'S CALLED BUTTERFLY REST STOP THE THING THAT DRAWS ME IS THE SOFTNESS AND THE LAYERS
OF TRANSLUCENCY THAT YOU SEE THROUGH IT MULTIPLE LAYERS THAT BUILD ON EACH OTHER
AND THAT THEY'RE ALWAYS CHAINING AND MOVING YOU COME AT NIGHT IT STARTS TO MOVE INTO
MAGENTA AND VIOLET AND ORANGE AND THEN IT MOVES LATER IN THE NIGHT INTO BLUE AND GREEN AS
MOONLIGHT DESCENDS THERE ARE 6 STEEL PYLONS AND EACH ONE HAS A 40FT DEEP FOUNDATION UNDERNEATH IT AND THEN
IT IS LOOMED INTO LACE PATTERNS OF NETTING WHICH WE HAND CUT AND HAND JOINED THE FIBER I'M USING
IS 15 TIMES STRONGER THAN STEEL IT'S ULTRA HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE AND IT'S WHAT NASA
USES IN SPACE TO TETHER THE MARS ROVER I STARTED THIS BEFORE THE PANDEMIC SO 5 YEARS AGO SO IT
TOOK A NUMBER OF YEARS TO DESIGN IT IN INTEGRATION WITH THE PARK AND THE BUILDINGS AND IT TOOK
MORE THAN A YEAR TO BRAID THE TWINES MAKE THE NETTING TO KNOT AND SPLICE THE WHOLE STRUCTURE
SO IT TAKES A VERY LARGE FACTORY VERY CLEAN LOFT TO MAKE SOMETHING LIKE THIS AND OF COURSE IT
WEIGHS THOUSANDS OF POUNDS TO MOVE IT I THINK THAT'S WHAT REALLY DRAWS
ME IN IS SOMETHING THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM EVERY VIEWPOINT FROM AT EVERY
MOMENT IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR AGE WHAT YOUR EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND YOUR
RACE ETHNICITY THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I HOPE SPEAKS TO EACH OF US IN OUR
HUMANITY BRINGING ALL OF US TOGETHER
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.