Norman Mooney is pleased to unveil his new installation, Windseeds at Brooklyn Botanic Garden from 16 November, 2022 to 8 January, 2023.
Lightscape at Brooklyn Botanic Garden presents Norman Mooney’s sculptures: Windseeds in New York City
The three Windseed sculptures commissioned for the Brooklyn Botanic gardens standing 12ft, 10ft and 8ft tall respectively all emanate from the same geometric structures. Windseeds, each work with 80 angular spikes jutting out from a convex polyhedron further defines Mooney’s signature starburst within the context of the natural urban environment of BBG.
Photo credit to: Alex Barreto
Photo credit to: Alex Barreto
Windseeds substantialize shapes and surfaces the artist glean from nature and science. Deriving from 'Smoke,' one of Mooney’s early sketches, Windseeds give volume and mass to a line-and-dot composition which reflects Mooney’s studies of natural elements. The spikes attached to a core structure transform clustering patterns on paper into a three-dimensional entity, blurring the lines between sublime artificial objects and natural things. A silver dandelion-shaped metal mass, the sculpture celebrates repurposed man-made objects inspired by nature.
Pen on panel 36”x36”, 2014
Mooney, who makes works that are at once physical and metaphysical, says his sculptures “connect our personal sense of self with the larger rhythms and patterns found in the natural world, and give context to our place within the greater universal mass that surrounds us.” With a notable scale and rather uniform aesthetics, Windseeds creates a space for people to walk in and around, thus calling upon our spatial experience with the matter around us.
