|
|
Planetary Landscapes: Sculpting the Solar System
With funding from the United States National Science Foundation, Chabot has collaborated with internationally acclaimed artist Ned Kahn to create 11 interactive sculptures, visual and tactile analogies to natural processes that entice viewers to observe more closely forces existing on Earth and elsewhere in the Solar System.
While the primary focus of Planetary Landscapes is experiential, the exhibition includes photomurals of where on Earth and elsewhere in the Solar System the phenomena suggested by the sculptures can be found.
|
|||||
|
© Chabot Space & Science Center - 10000 Skyline Blvd. - Oakland, CA 94619 - p: (510) 336-7300 - f: (510) 336-7491 |
||||||
Imagine
submerging your hand in a vibrating basin of glistening
garnet sand or creating a network of streams in fine powder.
Visitors will be able to experience these phenomena in
Planetary Landscapes: Sculpting the Solar System, a
traveling exhibition from the Chabot Space & Science Center
in California. 
In
addition to favorites like Aeolian Landscape and Turbulent
Orb, Planetary Landscapes includes new pieces created
expressly for this exhibition. Dust Devil invites visitors
to activate a shifting vortex of white particles that
suggest landscapes on Mars. An undulating Sea of Clouds
comes alive with waves and complex convection patterns,
evoking the atmospheres of Jupiter and Venus, and foggy
valleys here on Earth. In Icy Bodies shards of dry ice skim
across the surface of water, spinning "Sea of Clouds"
exhibit and colliding to form patterns as they vaporize.
Planetary Landscapes provides endless opportunities for
inquiry and guided discovery.