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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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roger that is a public artwork at the Tuscany LRT station in Calgary. The City of Calgary's open-data record names the artists as Bill Pechet with Gabe Daly and Sara Zonousi of Pechet Studio, and the City's public art page names Bill Pechet as lead artist. The page describes two sculptures, each 12 metres high, with project completion in July 2015, and the record describes them as composed of 440 amber coloured safety lights.

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roger that is a public artwork at the Tuscany LRT station in Calgary. The City of Calgary's public art page names Bill Pechet, lead artist at PECHET Studio, an interdisciplinary practice based in Vancouver. The City's open-data record names the artists as Bill Pechet with Gabe Daly and Sara Zonousi of Pechet Studio.

The City page says the Transportation Department commissioned it for the new station, lists a public art budget of $750K and gives the project completion as July 2015. It describes two sculptures, each 12 metres high, one on either side of Crowchild Trail, and places the station in the median between Stoney Trail and 12 Mile Coulee Road. The open-data record says the two sculptures are composed of 440 amber coloured safety lights.

The page says the work was inspired by physicist and philosopher Roger Penrose and adopts his tile geometry to create repeating and random cycles of shapes. It says visitors might first find it irregular and arbitrary, but that with a slight shift of position a perfect shape emerges. The open-data record describes poles that run from individual ones, seemingly placed in a disordered context, to a precise circle, and says the sculptures begin to shift and change form as the viewer moves through the site.

The artist is quoted on the City page saying the neighbourhoods of Tuscany and Rocky Ridge were, until recently, separated by Crowchild Trail, and that the elements of the work create a cross-highway dialogue, like two neighbours chatting over a fence. The page calls it "Yellow by day, and glowing at night." The record adds a suggestion: "If you're there as the sun is descending, stop and watch the lights gradually and randomly emerge."

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At the Tuscany LRT Station, Calgary. The City's open-data record gives the address as Tuscany Springs Boulevard N.W. and Eamon Road N.W.; the City's public art page places the station in the median of Crowchild Trail N.W. between Stoney Trail and 12 Mile Coulee Road, with the work on either side of the road.

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The City of Calgary's public art page places the work at the Tuscany LRT station, on either side of Crowchild Trail, and describes it as glowing at night.

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