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The sculpture features dozens of 162-foot-long LED tubes that appear to float over a canal in Old Town Scottsdale, emanating from a bridge designed by architect and philosopher Paolo Soleri, the man behind the utopian desert village \u003Ca class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Farcosanti.org\u002F\">Arcosanti.\u003C\u002Fa> Oscillating between bright white and golden hues, the site-specific lighting sequence “is like music. When you’re there, it creates a fourth dimension,” says Amorós. “From different angles you see a different piece.”\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n \r\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">In an attempt to create a language between the viewer, the natural setting, and the architecture, the tubes egress from Soleri’s gridlike bridge, touch the water at points, and dance across the channel up the sides of the canal banks. They are also meant to reference the architectural ingenuity of Arizona’s canal systems, which were modeled after the 13th-century waterways dug by the Hohokam tribe.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">“They had these pre-Incan canals that irrigated the whole desert, so I thought it would be interesting to make the canals visually active,” says Amorós, who also gave a lecture about the history of these engineering marvels. “When I got this opportunity, I didn’t want to just put my work on top of this canal, I wanted to learn about Arizona’s relationship with water and Soleri’s utopian vision. 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