HOMESTEAD AQUATIC CENTER

The Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission and the Orange County Arts Commission collaborated on a joint public art project for the new Aquatics Center at Homestead Park in Chapel Hill, scheduled to open in September of 2008.  The artwork created by artist Ray King, titled Eddies of Light, transforms the floor of the Aquatic Center's main lobby area into a luminous mosaic promenade of more than 2000 light-responsive, dichroic glass elements embedded into a tinted terrazzo floor.  These shimmering glass jewels create extraordinary interactions refracting light into rainbow-like emanations that shift and change as the viewer moves or as the light source changes.   The dichroic glass appears to emanate from a source within the ground itself and creates a magical feeling of walking on light.                               

                  floor detail              Eddies of Light        reflections on ceiling