Elder Mother is an immense movement and light sculpture designed by renowned artist Charles Gadeken of San Francisco. (Gadeken is the creator of Entwined Meadow, an installation of steel trees and bushes with interactive lighting controls, seen in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.) It’s a massive 30-foot metal tree with long strings of plastic cubes hanging from the branches; the cubes light up in in colors and sequences controlled by computer.
Here are designs for merchandise—stickers and other items. For visual components, I used schematic drawings and computer and photographic mockups.
Elder Mother is a magic, monumental, awe-inspiring, shade-bearing tree that moves in the wind and speaks through the language of light and color. The 30-ft metal sculpted tree carries a 25-ft canopy offering a place for animals to gather day and night with ever-changing, interactive illumination.
— Charles Gadeken
Design C-2 – the winner; alternate color systems may also be printed. Scroll down below the rule to see other design series.
Main image selected for print.
Alternate image: “Pastel.”
Alternate image: “Cyan.”
Alternate image: “Purple.”
Design series A – Individual light cubes attached to a hanging branch.
Design series B – Colorful, blurred lights overlaid with a schematic of the tree.
Design series C – Computer mockup of the sculpture with saturated colors. The right-hand image was selected for print usage by sculptor Gadeken.
