Leaning Towards Frame Dragging
45th & Killarney
Killarney Park
NW corner of the park
Civic
2005
Steel
Sculpture
In place
City of Vancouver
Ridgeway East Greenway
Description of work
A standard light pole is tilted 6 degrees. At the top is a wind device that transmits rotational forces down the shaft to a pod beside the base. On the face of the pod is a vortex-like surface with the centre appearing to recede into the ground. The rotation of the anemometer above causes the hands to move around a sort of clock face that registers time by millennia and details significant events in the life of the Killarney region.
Artist statement
"The title of the work refers to a theoretical notion taken from Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, that the time/space frame can possibly be distorted or 'dragged' towards a large rotating gravitational mass. Experiments are currently being conducted in space by NASA with an orbiting lab, .., that may prove or disprove this theory." -Artist's statement
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