Hundreds visit a fairground in silence

Charles Blanc October 29, 2015

Silent Fairground is a carousal and fairground attraction that was installed on an industrial site under redevelopment in Hagen, Germany. The temporary installation was commissioned as part of the 2015 Urbane Lights Ruhr.

See Silent Fairground in action here.

image courtesy of: Volker Hartmann / Urbane Künste Ruhr

For Pictures of the Future, in collaboration with @stevegurysh we had the pleasure of working with a team of Pittsburgh-based artists and craftspeople who each brought incredible dimension to the project.
Here’s a sneak peak of the documentary

Road trip with friend and collaborator @stevegurysh, to visit and scan erratic rocks in the incredible prairie landscape of Saskatchewan.
Often originating from thousands of km away, these rocks were left behind as the ice sheets of the last ice age

A little while back @colvilleandersen and @lifesizedcity documentary team came to Calgary for a deep dive into the urban and social qualities and challenges of this place we’ve called home for the last little while. We had the opportunity to sh

The observatory column taking shape within a hundred year old wind fallen oak. The last image is from over a year ago scanning the columns of the Allegheny Observatory with the Pittsburgh Public Works team. The complexity of all the fluting and radia

Subtractive sculpting in Riverview Park with @pittsburghurbantree. The first component of Pictures of the Future, a multipart collaborative project with @stevegurysh and commissioned by @planpgh is starting on site this week.

More updates to follow,