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A storage site. Work was removed from Justice Park when DeVos Place was constructed.
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Solar Painting: The Terminator was created in 1975 for the Chicago invitational exhibition Sculpture for a New Era. It evolved out of experiments with aluminized diffraction grating which reflects the color spectrum and projects it onto adjacent surfaces. For practical and aesthetic reasons, the inner aluminized surfaces were replaced with white paint. The title, which includes the word terminator, space terminology for the juncture of light and shadow on a planet’s surface, describes the visual phenomena of ever-changing patterns painted by the sun. Experientially, one may also walk through the split cylinder. The sculpture which became the focal point of Justice Park in 1978, was made possible through the artist, Urban Concerns, Inc., the Women’s Committee of the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Michigan Council for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Watson’s piece bespeaks his efforts, along with others to reclaim the riverbanks for an urban population.
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