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Ascendance
Public art sculpture comprising curved steel, steam-bent oak, LED lighting, audio components, woven rope.
Ascendance, by Studio Cooke John, is dedicated to the rich history of the neighborhoods of West Philadelphia. LED lighting was integrated along with audio components to play recordings of community voices and the piece's original musical score.
To bring this project into existence, we created a new technique for steam-bending wood into compound curves and designed custom machines and devices for workholding and metal bending.
Project information
- Artist / designer
- Nina Cooke John / Studio Cooke John
- Design engineer
- Quill Hyde
- Structural engineer
- Abul Engineering
- Fabrication
- 618 Design
- Galvanizing
- V&S Amboy
- Soundtrack curator
- Yolanda Wisher
- Composer
- Kendrah Butler-Waters
- Location
- uCity Square, Philadelphia
- Selected finished photographs
- Tony Turner
- Other photographs
- James Carafalo and 618 Design
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