"From a distance, it's the eye-catching primary colors that lure visitors to a new installation on a bustling downtown corner of Columbus, Indiana. But upon closer inspection, "Apart, Together," designed by Suzanne Lettieri, M.Arch. '11, and Michael Jefferson, M.Arch. '11, faculty in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, reveals hidden layers."
"What from afar resembled a wall or billboard is resolved into its components: roughly 90 vertical wooden panels arranged at 45-degree angles to each other, stretching accordion-style some 50 feet down a sidewalk bordering Ovation Plaza in this small Midwestern city renowned as an unlikely mecca of modern architecture."
"As one walks along and around the piece - part of Exhibit Columbus, a prominent stage for emerging designers - circles, squares and blocks of color materialize and dissolve. The word "yes" in block letters comes in and out of focus on the street-facing side. Then, point a smart device at the panels' swatches of red, yellow, blue and green, and the surface transforms into an "urban cinema screen." Through a web-based app, each color activates a stream of digital photo or video content."
Apart, Together is a public art installation on a downtown corner of Columbus, Indiana, adjacent to Ovation Plaza. The work comprises roughly 90 vertical wooden panels set at 45-degree angles, forming an accordion about 50 feet long. Primary-color swatches on the panels produce shifting circles, squares and block-letter forms like "yes" as viewers move. A web-based app links each color to streams of photos and video, turning the surface into an "urban cinema screen" and enabling visitors to manipulate the display in real time. Suzanne Lettieri and Michael Jefferson of Jefferson Lettieri Office created the piece for Exhibit Columbus to encourage community involvement.
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