Friday, October 10, 2014

WISHING WELL REMOVED FROM, CANADIAN CALGARY RECREATION CENTRE FOR SAFETY CONCERNS

CALGARY, Alberta, Canada - A sculpture has been removed from in front of a northeast Calgary recreation centre because it has been deemed dangerous. 
A sculpture with stainless steel, sound device components, lighting device components has been removed from in front of a northeast Calgary recreation centre because it has been deemed dangerous.
The $559,000 sculpture called Wishing Well was set up in front of the Genesis Centre of Community Wellness two years ago.
The wishing well  is consisted of  a mirror polished seed split open, where visitors can text phone message to sculpture, in the form of wishes. All wishes gets converted into a light and sound symphony shining out of the sculpture.
However, last spring the sun reflected off the mirror of the sculpture and burned a hole through a visitor's jacket.
Since that time, a fence has been placed around it so people could not walk up to the installation.
City officials moved the piece into storage this week as the artist tries to find a way to fix the problem.

Source: CBC

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