Water Whirler

Also known as Len Lye Water Whirler

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Photo: Phillip Capper from Wellington, New Zealand · CC BY 2.0

Year

2006

Artist

Len Lye

Type

public art

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Water Whirler is a kinetic fountain on the Wellington waterfront, a flexible pole roughly ten meters tall that spins, gyrates, and oscillates on a motorized base while water jets set along its length throw spray outward in three dimensions. …

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Built 2000-2009
Contemporary

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