100 Days of Summer
- Artist
- Joe McGrane
- Year
- 2003
- Location
- City Park Pool
- Description
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100 Days of Summer is a fun, interactive and social environment that serves as a sculptural entry plaza for the new City Park Pool. It uses playful wave imagery, washing over the events of summer, as a base for a variety of kid scale curiosities and optical phenomenon peculiar to a summer at the pool. It is designed to extend the activities and excitement of the new pool into the greater park landscape and provides a focal point at the pool entrance.
Joe McGrane created a strong entryway element for the new City Park Pool. The area was previously an empty space with no seating for patrons waiting for the pool to open. McGrane used this need as inspiration to create an artistic piece surrounded by sandstone seating. The center castle form holds a large steel carnival mirror. Viewing tubes span the width of the concrete form and contain objects and images of the pool's past. Colorful tiles adorn the seating and there is a ring of 100 aluminum disks symbolizing the length of the pool season. Some of the disks are engraved with images representing holidays in the season.
Photos
City Park Pool visitors interact with 100 Days of Summer
100 Days of Summer at the City Park Pool
Artist Joe McGrane installing the discs that represent the 100 days of summer.