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14-09-2018
The Oort-Cloud fountain, Franeker
| Submitter: | Roy de Goei |
| Description: | This year Leeuwarden-Fryslan 2018 is the Cultural Capital of Europe. One of the major project is the 11 fountains in the eleven Frisian cities, designed by eleven artists from different countries. One of these fountains is created by the french artist Jean-Michel Orthoniel, called 'the Oort-Cloud' The fountain is an ode to the famous astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort, who was born in Franeker. His assumption that 'cloud' of billions of comet-like objects moving around our solar system was a breakthrough in astronomy. The fountain is designed as a series of waterfalls spilling that flow into the water basin from a bowl, along a vertical chain of night-coloured pearls. One of the pearls is silver-coloured, like the colour of the moon, another is gilded, the colour of the sun. The 'Oort Cloud' fountain itself is a mist of fine droplets falling from a gold-coloured mesh into the bowl. |
| Copyright: | Roy de Goei / 11fountains.nl |
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