Her Secret Is Patience By Janet Echelman

Janet Echelman is an artist who defies categorization. She creates sculptures at the scale of buildings that react to the environment for example, wind and light. The art she creates shifts from being an object you look at and becomes a living environment you can get lost in. Using unlikely materials like fishnet, “Echelman combines ancient craft with cutting-edge technology to create artworks that have become focal points for urban life on four continents” (Frank).
For example “Her Secret is Patience” crafted by Janet Echelman in 2009, stands between 40 and 100 feet above the ground and is constructed of steel, twine netting, and colored lighting. It is located in Phoenix, Arizona in the city’s Civic Space Park. “At night, the illumination changes color gradually through the seasons. The goal in selecting the colors is to provide residents some small climate relief through color, adding cool hues in summer, and warm tones in winter” (“Her Secret is Patience…”).
Echelman first set out to be an artist after graduating college but after
There are several layers of nets in the sculpture so it can sustain the weather conditions in Phoenix. “The large 3-dimensional multi-layered form is created by a combination of hand-baiting and machine-loomed knotting, and is the result of a collaborative effort with an international team of award-winning aeronautical and mechanical engineers, architects, lighting designers, landscape architects, and fabricators” (“Her Secret is Patience…).
I chosed this art piece because I was amazed by how you can create something as huge as buildings by using your own hands. This sculpture by Janet Echelman is hand crafted and it takes you to a relax place when you see it. Everyone who was a part in creating “Her Secret is Patience” actually had to have the patience to finish the