Solar Flair - Topeka, Kansas
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N 39° 02.864 W 095° 40.509
15S E 268492 N 4325479
This metallic sculpture is located in the Bartlett and West Pocket Park - 9th and Kansas Avenue in Topeka, Kansas.
Waymark Code: WMW7TQ
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 07/21/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Outspoken1
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Solar Flair is a five-foot diameter outdoor sculpture in Topeka, Kansas. There are sixty identical flat pieces made of 3/16 inch thick stainless steel. The parts are joined together with stainless steel bolts and brackets at twenty 3-fold and twelve 5-fold vertices. Each part connects from one type of vertex to the other, passing through the interior en route. It feels like they are linking arms---swinging their partners while dancing together.

Each piece has ten bolt holes, so there are 600 nuts, 600 bolts, and 1200 washers to deal with. There are also 180 connecting brackets, sixty in each of three types.

- George Hart Solar Flair website



As a sculptor of constructive geometric forms, my work deals with patterns and relationships derived from classical ideals of balance and symmetry. Mathematical yet organic, these abstract forms invite the viewer to partake of the geometric aesthetic. I use a variety of media, including paper, wood, plastic, metal, and assemblages of common household objects.

Classical forms are pushed in new directions, so viewers can take pleasure in their Platonic beauty yet recognize how they are updated for our complex high-tech times. I share with many artists the idea that a pure form is a worthy object, and select for each piece the materials that best carry that form. In one series of pieces, familiar objects are arranged in engaging configurations, displaying an essential tension between mundane individual components and the strikingly original totality.

Because my works invite contemplation, slowly revealing their content, some viewers see them as meditation objects. A lively dancing energy moves within each piece and flows out to the viewer. The integral wholeness of each self-contained sculpture presents a crystalline purity, a conundrum of complexity, and a stark simplicity.

- George Hart Website



Title: Solar Flair

Artist: George W. Hart

Media (materials) used: Stainless steel on a concrete plinth

Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Bartlett and West Pocket Park

Date of creation or placement: 4/18/2016

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