Buster Simpson Brush with Illumination, 1998, False Creek, Vancouver, Canada

Brush with Illumination (1998), a 30-foot-high, 28-foot wide, 31-foot long sculpture set on a 30-foot high, 18-foot-diameter piling, records environmental data, which is broadcast to a website. The data-accessing sensors are powered by batteries charged by solar energy. The data is transformed into an ideogram, or drawing, that is available from the website.

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