A twelve-foot sphere in stainless steel with a gold powder-coated finish, sited near Wayne and Kay Woolsey Hall on the Wichita State University campus.

The form follows Buckminsterfullerene, a carbon molecule named for Buckminster Fuller, whose geodesic dome it resembles. Fuller developed the Dymaxion House in Wichita in the mid-1940s, so the reference is local as well as structural. The pattern cut into each facet draws on wheat stalks, aircraft, wind motion and the stars of the Kansas state motto.

Stainless steel with gold powder-coating, twelve feet in diameter, lit from within so the cuts extend into large shadow patterns across the surrounding ground after dark.

The work was commissioned for the campus and acquired by the Ulrich Museum of Art by museum purchase with additional funds from Woolsey Hall, entering the Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection as its eighty-sixth work.

LOCATIONUlrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

YEAR2022

PARTNERUlrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University

MATERIALSGold powder-coated stainless steel, LED

TYPEPermanent