Wind & Wings
Dichrolaminate acrylic, stainless steel suspension
570 linear feet x varying widths
2018 Dayton Children’s Hospital - Springboro, Ohio
The goal for integrating Winds & Wings into the hospital’s public concourses was to create a joyful and playful environment. The Dichrolaminate material and forms play with the light, changing colors and cast them on ceilings and walls as viewers pass below. The sculpture, with its whimsical forms and brilliant colors, find its success in the elevated spirits of patients, care givers and hospital staff.
Winds & Wings flows for 570 lineal feet through Dayton Children’s Hospital, Springboro. Dichrolaminate forms, suspended from stainless steel aircraft cable, symbolize wind currents and fuselages animate the open stairway and first floor concourses thought the Hospital’s three building complex.
Canneto Studios was brought into this project by the art consultant Distinctive Art Source. As the buildings construction was underway the challenge was to design a suspension system for the sculpture that would work with the installed drop ceiling rather than attaching it to the buildings steel structure as originally planned. Syncing with the electrical, flooring and suspended ceiling contractors was critical and facilitated by Architect David Glover and Todd Alexander, project manager.
Winds & Wings flows through the Specialty Services Building, Connecting Corridor and Emergency Department like fresh currents of air. The continuously changing players of light and color are reminiscent of the ever-changing sky as air currents shape and move the clouds.
The dynamic and graceful movement of the sculpture through the space symbolize the flow of caring and creative energy throughout the Hospital and into the surrounding community.
