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What people will see in EDGE's gallery goes far beyond design drawings and study models (though there are many of these). There are beforeand-after photos of the space, and great process photos of the chandeliers being fabricated at the Pittsburgh Glass Center. All of these give an insight into the collaborative, handson nature of the process, supplemented by extensive quotes from many of the participants, including other organizations. Says EDGE principal Dutch MacDonald: "It's more about the collaboration among the client, artists and architects."
They also collaborated with glass artists Kathleen Mulcahy and Ron Desmett, who had independently taken inspiration from celestial orbs, specifically Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem, "Slip of Comet." Mulcahy and Desmett concocted chandeliers with colored and swirling glass orbs mounted on curved steel tubes, as if planets against the starry background of EDGE's perforated screens. Einstein insisted that God does not play dice with the universe; Mulcahy and Desmett's gleeful glass spheres suggest that the game may in fact be marbles. No question that these creations are serious art. They just make it seem as though the Big Bang took place in a candy store.See the full content of this document
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YOU COULD BE EXCUSED, while on the North Side, for constantly ruminating about stars and planets. The former Buhl Planetarium, a monument to the skies, remains as part of the recently expanded Children's Museum, and the neighborho...
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