Desert Light
Desert Light was designed to capture and manipulate the light from Tucson's desert sun. Our essence can always be found in nature and light. The dichroic glass panels affixed to the sculpture allow the viewer to explore that essence through the images they reflect, whether extraordinary or ordinary.
Art Form: Sculpture
Location: Central
Collection(s): City of Tucson
Funding: Department of Transportation, Transit
Artist(s): Gordon Huether
Gordon Huether, Desert Light, 2011.
This twenty-foot-high by five-foot-wide sculpture is created from panels of dichroic glass and a narrow, conical supporting frame of stainless steel. The multi-colored effect of dichroic glass is produced by a process called "thin film physics". Thin-film physics are also responsible for the rainbow patterns in a soap bubble, the swirling colors in the thin layer of oil floating in puddle and the dramatic reflections in dragonfly wings.
Dimensions: 20' x 5'
Address: 3920 N. Sun Tran Blvd.
