The Wind Blows Where it Wishes
Located in the Fay Jones Woods at the Lower Ramble along Fayetteville, Arkansas’ Cultural Arts Corridor, The Wind Blows Where it Wishes is a site-specific installation visualizing the swirling air currents within the city’s unique park development.
The artwork provides real-time visualization of the the winds, breezes, and gusts perpetually moving through Fayetteville’s Lower Ramble park. Park visitors are offered a 360-degree view of a cluster of small rectangular wind vanes suspended from a steel wire grid fixed within the railing structure of the projecting canopy overlook. One wind vane is located at each of the fourteen intersection points of the geometric grid.
The design of the suspension structure utilizes anchor points within the symmetrical structure of the elliptical overlook bridge to create a grid inspired by the converging and intersecting lines characteristic of many of E. Fay Jones’ architectural highlights. The grid of Rambling Vanes echoes the angular interlacing truss structure of Jones’ famous Throrncrown Chapel specifically, and introduces that crystalline geometry into the surrounding Fay Jones Woods environment which is primarily defined by natural, curving, and winding organic shapes and forms.
