Extended Sunset

Backlit prints, LED lights, astronomical timer, electronics, vinyl / 16’ x 50’ / 2019

Extended Sunset consists of a photograph taken nearby of a particularly sunny Pennsylvania sunset that is installed into the six large windows of Eisenhower Auditorium on the (often overcast) campus of Penn State University. The image in each window is backlit by LED lights that are controlled by an astronomical timer. At the exact moment that actual sunset begins, the lights in the windows begin to illuminate. As actual sunset wanes, Extended Sunset brightens in direct inverse proportion, and continues on throughout the night, fading out at dawn.