Wednesday July 24, 2013
Another attraction in Millennium Park that we visited was the Crown Fountain. The following is from Wikipedia:
"The Crown Fountain is an interactive work of public art and video sculpture, named in honor of Chicago's Crown family and opened in July 2004. It was designed by Catalan conceptual artist Jaume Plensa and executed by Krueck and Sexton Architects. The fountain is composed of a blakc granite reflecting pool placed between a pair of transparent glass brick towers. The towers are 50 feet tall, and use light-emitting diodes behind the bricks to display digital videos on their inward faces."
"Weather permitting, the water operates from May to October, intermittenly cascading down the two towers and spouting through a nozzle on each tower's front face. To achieve the effect in which water appears to be flowing from subjects' mouths, each video has a segment where the subject's lips are puckered, which is then time to correspond to the spouting water, reminiscent of gargoyle fountains; this happens roughly every five minutes."
It is really delightful watching the smiling images displayed on the towers and the water that spouts from their lips. Like the Crown Gate, this attraction contributes a nice sense of whimsey to the overall good mood of the park-goers.
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