ACCUMULATING RHYTHMS
Illuminating our shared ecology, Accumulating Rhythms is a bold proposal for a large-scale lighting installation, driven by profound rhythms and personal sentiments.
“We believe that there is promise in transforming the Tobin Bridge into a symbol of environmental awareness and artistic ingenuity that celebrates its structural form.”
—Kris Carter, Chief Innovation Officer, MassDOT
Accumulating Rhythms will serve as a beacon, inspiring and illuminating our region’s commitment to ecological thinking.
Driving by profound rhythms and personal sentiments...
This world-class artwork will juxtapose real-time tidal rhythms with recorded statements, sourced from the community, translated into light.
A bold net-zero commitment…
Accumulating Rhythms is committed to achieving net-zero operational and embodied carbon through hyper-local offsets. To achieve this, we will partner with outstanding environmental justice and energy-transition organizations based right here - in the shadow of the bridge.
The artwork consists of a series of state-of-the-art lighting fixtures, networked together and governed by custom programing that can render unique colors as fine as a single point of light or as broad as a gradient spanning the bridge’s entire truss structure.
Weaving the Earth's most profound rhythms with thousands of voices transformed into light.
Leading up to and throughout the artwork’s deployment, the artists’ team with local partners will conduct workshops on tide and ecology. Participants will be invited to share their thoughts on climate by offering a recording of their voice to the project. Thousands of recordings over the life of the project will constitute an evolving repository; thoughts, fears, hopes, visions for our shared ecology.
The artists will then analyze the rhythm, texture and tone of these statements and translate them into abstract lighting patterns to be displayed on the bridge at immense scale. The result is an ever-evolving series of lighting events cast across the bridge, with viewers observing layers of color and rhythmical motifs.
At the intersection of infrastructure, culture and environment, Accumulating Rhythms will be a legible tide clock and a living chronicle of climate sentiment.
