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The original mock-up of “Secrets of the Sun: Millennial Meditations (S.O.S.)” in the artist’s studio, 1990. This image became the cover photo of the “Secrets of the Sun: Rome,” exhibition catalogue. White suited dancer and sculptor, Aura Woelfle, Erskine’s niece, is in the foreground. The 1992 Rome catalogue was edited by Gretchen ...
S.O.S. Berlin, 1993. In 1993, Erskine was invited to install Secrets of the Sun: Millennial Meditations in Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures Art Museum). This natural solar spectrum art exhibition was sponsored by the Berlin 2000 Olympic Organizing Committee as the cultural centerpiece for that city’s bid for the 2000 Olympics.
Artist’s Residence, Venice, California, 1997. Artist's Residence, 1990. A Los Angeles Residence, 1993. Fries Residence, 2001. Peter Erskine creates active heliostat and passive solar spectrum prism installations which are designed for the specific architectural and domestic programs of individual residences.
Erskine selected Union Station as the host for “S.O.S. – LA” both for its architectural beauty, and for the symbolic power of sustainable mass transit in combating climate change. Emulating the car dominated sprawl of Los Angeles, the 20,000 square foot expanse of S.O.S. – LA dwarfed S.O.S. – Berlin, and the intimate scale of S.O.S. – Rome installed in the 2000 year old Trajan’s ...
The solar art installation’s 30 foot deep light shaft is lined with prisms and mirrors. In Erskine’s Light and Space installation, Solar prisms stain the stairs with living color. Living Solar Spectrum beams splash from four prisms in the lobby ceiling, painting a MAGIC CARPET on the floor below. Mixing rainbow colors flow across the ...
Peter Erskine – solar spectrum installation Paul B. MacCready Engineer and Inventor of human-powered flight, Chairman of the Board, AeroVironment Inc. Secrets of the Sun can broaden people¹s thinking, get them fascinated by the connections between different topics — and even enthusiastic enough to talk and argue about these things.
