Essay Fluctus Per Auras

This summer while I travelled to London, UK, a particular piece of technology based art outside a store called Debenhams (Figure 1) caught my eyes and inspired me to create my own work of art for this course.As seen in Figure 1, the walls of Debenhams use a screen to create a ripple effect or waves through the screen. For my APS 325 final project, I would like to create a fusion between engineering, science and art as well, through the medium of a dynamic sculpture titled “Fluctus per Auras” which translates to Waves by Wind in Latin. The basis for my kinetic sculpture is that wind cannot be seen but only felt. I wish to use the power of wind to create unique shapes and patterns so that viewers can see wind in a physical shape and form. The wind-activated art work uses the speed, direction, and force …show more content…
Additionally, if the artwork was placed in front of an object, anything behind the artwork will be cooler in terms of temperature as the metal sequins reflect light and thereby do not let much heat transfer through the sculpture. The lower power consumption by the micro LED lights enables the kinetic sculpture to maintain its presence even at night. If the same sculpture were to be created on a much larger scale, it could help lower the temperature within a building by several degrees thereby saving electricity costs related to air conditioning which leads to lower carbon emissions. Increasing the magnitude of the sculpture and attaching a power storage device can also harness energy from the wind moving the sequin panels and using the same energy to power the micro-LED lights at night. This artwork is also mimetic in a sense as it aims to recreate waves in the sea on a panel of metal sequins instead and this is also a representation of bio design that is inspired from