BUTT DIAL, 2013
Butt Dial: Prototype for Larger Work, 2013
Plastic, paint
The shadows from each animal were traced on a heliodon (an apparatus that mimics the sun) according to the latitude at which they lived or live, ie. the panda was traced for the latitude of 30˚ at each hour through the day. The dinosaur is positioned on the top of the wall, as they have been found as far north as 80˚. And the elephant ranges at 10˚.
Purple represents what their shadows would look like at several hours through the day on the winter solstice, green represents their shadows on the equinox and orange was used to trace their shadows for the summer solstice.
Butt Dial, detail