A large-scale, interactive artwork, welcomes visitors to the Arizona Science Center in a spirit of playfulness and discovery.  Visitors enter the lobby of the Arizona Science Center and encounter a stainless steel telescope. Looking into the eyepiece, people see a all sorts of animal eyes looking back at them. Inside the eyepiece, there is also a small camera taking video of the viewers’ eyes as they watch the videos. As visitors continue into the lobby, a giant microscope and telescope plunge from the ceiling, as if puncturing through the roof from above and looking down at the lobby space. Visitors see large eyes looking down at them from the telescope (the camera’s live video feed) as if they were the ones being examined.

Date: 2011
Location: Arizona Science Center, Phoenix, AZ
Commissioning Agency: Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture
Details: Three interactive sculptures, Aluminum, stainless steel, video monitors, video camera, computer and software.
Ceiling Telescope: 25 ft x 6 ft x 6 ft. 
Ceiling Microscope: 18 ft x 10 ft x 10 ft. 
Floor Telescope: 5 ft x 4 ft x 4 ft.
Fabrication: Magnum Companies
Technical collaborator: David Tinapple
Photographs: Bill King