New sculpture by Steven Holl installed at the Art Omi Sculpture and Architecture Park
The new sculpture, called Obolin, uses cross laminated timber (CLT) to create three cutouts subtracted from a spherical geometry to mark the location of the sun's vector based on its Hudson Valley location at noon on the Summer and Winter Solstices, and at 2:00pm on the Equinox. Obolin was fabricated from a single, 50-foot-long sheet of CLT, and was stack laminated and milled with a 7-axis robotic arm. This is the second sculpture by Steven Holl to be installed at Art Omi's Sculpture and Architecture Park. The first was One Two Five, a sculpture cut by CNC from a "21-million-year-old Lecce limestone" installed back in 2018.
The new sculpture, called Obolin, uses cross laminated timber (CLT) to create three cutouts subtracted from a spherical geometry to mark the location of the sun's vector based on its Hudson Valley location at noon on the Summer and Winter Solstices, and at 2:00pm on the Equinox.
Obolin was fabricated from a single, 50-foot-long sheet of CLT, and was stack laminated and milled with a 7-axis robotic arm. This is the second sculpture by Steven Holl to be installed at Art Omi's Sculpture and Architecture Park. The first was One Two Five, a sculpture cut by CNC from a "21-million-year-old Lecce limestone" installed back in 2018.
