Commissioned for TIAA’s new headquartes in Frisco, Texas, Bluebonnet is an artwork that acts as a landmark and anchor in the public space surrounding the building. Bluebonnet is inspired by it’s namesake, Texas’s beloved state flower. The vertical blossoms of bluebonnets and their clusters of bright blue flowers along their upright stem give them unique and immediately identifiable flora within the Texas landscape. When in blossom they transform the expensive planes of the state with a vibrant  moving surface as fields of bluebonnets blow in unison with the wind. We captured the vibrancy, verticality, and sense of motion through a 10 rows of tubes that are bent and laser cut and various angles and lengths to create a sense of motion. While each of the 570 tubes is unique, they come together to create a frozen choreography that is evocative of wind blowing through them. At night Bluebonnet is transformed by custom programmed LEDs integrated into each of the tubes. The light from each LEDs reflects

off a “petal” made from cutting way the tube to provide a surface to capture the light. As each light fades on and off, the petal appears to grow. The LEDs are programmed with a series of generative behaviors that activate the artwork in way that wind appears to blow through the radial array of tubes. The combination of dynamic LEDs, reflected light, and the radial form arrayed of tubes come together to create a dynamic beacon on the site. The effect is not meant to be seen as simply as lights, but a composite of material, form, and  LEDs that creates a landmark oscillating between something that is both grounded and atmospheric.