The moving walkway that connects the East and West Building of the National Gallery.
As you move through the passage way one is surrounded by a twinkling LED installation by artist Leo Villareal. When you stand or walk in the tunnel, more than 40,000 LEDs sparkle in synchronized and random patterns all around you.
Villareal says the patterns in his art are inspired by nature:
"I'm very interested in rules and underlying structures, which all tie in with the code I'm writing. There are things in nature that inspire me, like wave patterns or natural systems that at first glance appear to be very complex, but when I study them further there are simple rules that govern them. That's what I try to get at in my code -- building simple rules that refer to some of these ideas. Laws are another thing I've been working on lately. I'm not a physicist, but I use rules to create software and in the software I'm able to play with parameters like gravity, velocity, friction. I'm able to use these parameters and access them as an artist and see what compelling things result."
This installation closes November 2009.. I am so glad that I got to see it.
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