Untitled Project Drawing

These drawings are part of a set that Dale Eldred made for Sun Structures + Time Incident, his 1979 exhibition at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art that comprised works located inside and outside the Museum. Facade Mirror Bank consisted of two banks of mirror plates that reflected the sun's rays onto the Museum's north facade to create a shimmering dance of golden light. In Rozzelle Court, Eldred transformed a space that was then open to the sky into a kind of solar clock. With each rotation of the Earth, sunlight glided around the court, creating a moving rainbow as it touched mylar prismatic diffraction tape. Eldred's work reminds us that light is wondrous and elemental.