Sunburst

Stainless steel. 2023 Client: The City of Palm Desert, CA.

Sunburst is a 25 foot tall abstract stainless steel sculpture for the San Pablo roundabout that pays homage to the Sun. The piece can be interpreted to represent multiple concepts - the Sun, a star, a flower that opens and closes as the viewer circulates around it, or an abstract palm tree that celebrates Palm Desert’s natural beauty.

The sculpture is composed of two sections perpendicular to one another, each facing toward the roundabout’s intersecting roads. The two circular forms interact visually with one another forming a gestalt sphere as drivers negotiate the roundabout.