Kinetic light sculpture · Otter Rock · Catskill, NY

FlowMotionGrand

A welcome that moves. Turning sculptures, slow shadows and a calm circle of light at the entrance.

26 ft · 8 m6 variationsFull cut-off light

01 Story

Movement you can stand in.

FlowMotion began as a lamp for the living room. For Otter Rock it grows to 26 feet, turns upside down and lights the ground instead of the ceiling.

Rotating shadow rays on the island at night

Mesmerizing movements and shadows

Every element turns on its own gear. Their shadows circle slowly across the ground and never repeat the same picture.

Ambient space

A soft island of light at the arrival. A place to pause, meet and look up before walking on to the domes and cabins.

Connection between physics and art

Gears, light and geometry made visible. The mechanism is the artwork: you can see how it moves and why it casts what it casts.

02 Six variations

One lamp, six crowns.

Each variation uses the real elements of one FlowMotion lamp. The base becomes the crown at 24 ft; a single LED under the hub shines down through the turning elements. Walk around it in 3D.

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03 On site

At the heart of the arrival.

The sculpture stands in the center of the traffic island at the entrance drive, where plan C-301 notes the kinetic sculpture. It is drawn to scale in the original site plan.

Excerpt of Bohler site plan C-301 with FlowMotion Grand marked on the entrance island: crown footprint and the dashed light zone

PlanBohler C-301 rev. 1 · teal = crown footprint · dashed purple = light zone at night

26'-3"
Overall height 8.00 m: ≥ 11'-8"
Clear height under the crown: 36'
To the nearest building (greenhouse)

The island is about 50 × 45 ft. The plinth needs a 8'-6" square footing below grade; everything above the plinth is out of reach. The crown stays inside the island outline in every variation.

Full site plan · PDF View full plan

04 Light at night

Inside the circle, a show. Outside, nothing.

One LED projector under the crown shines straight down through the turning elements. Light and moving shadows appear on the ground only inside a fixed circle around the mast. Beyond it there is no light and no shadow from the sculpture.

Night view from above: the shadow patterns stay inside the marked light zone, dark beyond it

Light zoneyellow ring = edge of the light, radius 34 ft (10.3 m) around the mast

34'
Radius of light and shadow (10.3 m): 0 cd
Light above the horizontal: 36'
To the nearest building

The projector sits at 23'-7" and is fully shielded upward with a 55° cut-off. Everything it does stays on the island and the drive aisle around it: no light on façades or cabins, no glare toward the road, nothing into the night sky.

Slow rotation (about 1 rpm), no flashing. Dimmable and on a timer, for example from dusk until 11 pm.

05 Drawings

For the planning board.

Two A3 sheets per variation: elevation with footing and cut-off line, site plan with the light zone. Drawn from the model of the selected variation.

Mesmerizing movements and shadows.

kinetic art by

Florian Görlitz

MechanicalMagic

Mailfloriangoerlitz@mechanicalmagic.de

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