Silhouette Sundials - Questacon, Canberra, ACT, Australia
S 35° 17.903 E 149° 07.863
55H E 693768 N 6091783
A set of four silhouette metal sculptures will tell the time at certain hours of the day at Questacon.
Waymark Code: WMZ567
Location: Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date Posted: 09/10/2018
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To the side of the Questacon Science Museum are four white silhouette representations of humans doing various activities. But the main reason for them being here only becomes apparent at a certain time of day! While there is a fee for entering Questacon these are outside.
"The four outlined figurative forms are; a young girl with balloon (10am), a teenage boy doing a hand stand (12pm), a middle aged woman “Yoga Mum” (2pm) and an elderly male with a walking cane (4pm)."
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visit link) The link for Karl Meyer's work has one photo taken at 2pm that very well shows how they are used!
On the base of the young girl with a balloon is the following: "The promise of a Morning around ten o'clock. Eager like a child. [Can you find the approximate time in the sculpture shadows]" While on the hand-standing teen boy is: "Afternoon? Morning? Midday balanced in-between like maturing teens." The middle-aged woman has: "Salute to the Sun Position of two o'clock. Brings middle-aged day." While the elderly male with a cane has: "The day retires; Late afternoons like Autumn; Time for four o'clock." I was there just after 4pm, and that sculpture was being partly shaded by a nearby tree.
Address: King Edward Terrace, Parkes, ACT, 2600, Australia
Hours: Sunday to Saturday: 9am to 5pm
Opened: November 23, 1988
Phone: +61 2 6270 2800
Visited: 1616, Sunday, 2 September, 2018