Rhizomatic Lilac Fizz
By Vertebrae - Lisa Little
Vertebrae’s Rhizomatic Lilac Fizz is a permanent public art installation commissioned by the Oregon Arts Commission’s Percent for Art in Public Places. At 30’ long, 22’ wide, and 9’ tall, the canopy hovers over the lobby of the Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center’s new additive manufacturing facility in Scappoose, OR. Composed of 880 parts, Rhizomatic Lilac Fizz suggests an interconnected network and a dynamic flock of discrete components. At the heart of this installation is an intended tension between the interconnected and the discrete, the network and the cloud, the complex and the organized, the engineered and the free-form.