1.8 London

The quite beautiful ‘1.8 London’ structure above Oxford Circus is Janet Echelman’s exhibit for the Lumiere Festival, 2016.

This enormous net sculpture is named after one of the astonishing impacts of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in 2011

Such was the strength of the vibrations, the earthquake momentarily sped up the earth’s rotation and shortened that day by 1.8 microseconds. Using data from NASA, Studio Echelman turned this phenomenon into a 3D image, the basis of which was used to create the shape of this piece.

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Posted by Hemzah Ahmed on 2016-01-16 18:25:22

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