Windswept is a kinetic installation by American artist Charles Sowers. Installed on the facade of the Randall Museum, the installation consists of 612 weather vanes mounted on the exterior wall. As the wind blows the weather vanes spin not as one unit but independently, showing localised wind patterns and how they interact with the building.
Through the installation the artist aims to make the invisible visible; “Our ordinary experience of wind is as a solitary sample point of a very large invisible phenomenon, windswept is a kind of large sensor array that samples the wind at its point of interaction with the Randall Museum building and reveals the complexity and structure of that interaction. I’m generally interested in creating instrumentation that allows us insight into normally invisible or unnoticed phenomena.”
A really interesting piece of work from such a simple idea.
