Third commission for the same school. The cross sits on the facade above the entrance, aligned with the path students walk every morning.
Anodised aluminium and glass. At night, a concealed LED strip edge-lights the glass.
Butterfly wings create colour without pigment. Nano-scale structures interfere with light, producing iridescence that never fades.
Researchers at UCF have replicated this effect on aluminium. Paint that never fades because there's no pigment to degrade.
I've been watching this for years. Waiting for it to become available at architectural scale.
"Some of us can't help but see the world as malleable. It's almost as if we have to develop a reality distortion field as a coping mechanism."
Srinivas Rao