Moonlike Sunlight

This sculpture is wired with a small solar panel beneath blue glass and stores sunlight during the day via two super capacitors. At night, or in a dark room, it then projects an image which is similar to the full moon, using the exact same sunlight/photons as what the solar panels earlier captured. It is a meditation on the fact that what we think of as moonlight is actually reflected sunlight, a simple and obvious point that I nevertheless find amazing, mainly because our emotional responses to sunlight and moonlight are so different. I very much enjoyed doing the wiring and figuring out how to make the unique switch by laying stainless steel across the copper terminals. The blue glass is from The Commodore, an historic paddlewheel boat on Lake Austin.

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