BLINK Cincinnati 2019

Created for BLINK Cincinnati’s “Future City” theme, this new fungus finds a way to grow and thrive in its earth-poor and concrete-rich environment. This urban mycelia specimen spreads and grows wherever it can, providing vivid luminescence like a fungal firefly lighting up a dark alleyway.

BLINK 2019 photo of art installation by Daniel Shields using acrylic yarn in an alley in Covington, Ky near the Hotel Covington

From the middle level of the adjacent parking structure on one side.


 

Some media coverage of BLINK by WKRC including an interview. Brad Underwood caught me about 15 minutes after finishing structural installation of the piece for BLINK 2019.
Click image to view the interview, or go directly to: https://local12.com/news/local/artists-put-finishing-touches-on-exhibits-for-blink

Engineering document (originally created for a different location a few blocks away) for city approval.

Digital rendering used for planning (originally created for a different location a few blocks away).

And the sky falls down.