Faceted Column was installed in the fall of 2020 after almost two years of development. Commissioned by the City of Wichita at the new Riverfront Stadium development and ballpark, Faceted Column by artist Derek Porter, is a 30ft tall and eight foot diameter shimmering column on the McLean Art Plaza at the entrance to the new stadium.
Faceted Column is composed of nearly 5,000 faceted mirror surfaces that collect and recast images of the surrounding site. A viewers’ familiar understanding of the surrounding environment - landscape, sky, vehicular traffic, and human activity - is fractured, reassembled and re-presented within the systematic reflector layout to become isolated pixels of visual texture. This abstracted scene is recomposed across the multi-faceted tower surface with changing conditions of light, time and season to reveal the fluctuating temporal conditions of place.
