by Stephan Salisbury, Staff Writer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
November 27, 2017 — 12:45 PM EST
The particles collide, gleaming like melting ice, bouncing and reconstituting. Flowers, spiky and delicate, meander through the coruscating field. Fog settles in, blue and green and red and yellow.
This visual dreamscape, which evokes water without literally representing it, would be mesmerizing enough in a gallery or museum.
But it will be laid out along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. And it’s inspired by Ben Franklin himself.
Jennifer Steinkamp’s Winter Fountains are four enormous domes – she calls them “giants” – that are now rising on both sides of the Parkway as part of its centennial celebration. Starting Thursday, they will be covered in nighttime displays of fluid digital projections.