Summit County Public Art Board's Favorite Local Pieces // How We Move

In this blog series we feature Summit County Public Art Board Member’s favorite local art pieces. See Summit County public art through new eyes and experience what makes these pieces so special according to our Summit County Public Art Board members. Once you’ve read our blog, go experience these public art pieces for yourself! 

In this blog post we feature a favorite from Summit County Public Art Board member, Pete Van Stee.

His favorite Summit County Public Art piece is How We Move, located at Kimball Junction Transit Center at 1899 West Ute Blvd. Park City, UT. 

To create these sculptures, the How We Move artist team—Will Pratt, Jessica Kulchock, Kevin Arthofer along with David Giardinelli and Michael Robinson—gathered movement and acceleration data from an alpine skier, a cross country skier, a bobsledder, a walker, a mountain biker, and a ski jumper with wearable movement sensors. This data was used to create a cluster of seven aluminum ribbons representing how each athlete moves. 

You can find these series of aluminum sculptures outside on the Kimball Junction Center’s six bus shelters. Inside the transit center, you can find an interactive wall display made up of images informed by the viewer’s actions, captured and translated in real time by a movement sensor. Some info above is from Park City Magazine’s article on this public art opening in 2016. 

Pete was drawn to these sculptures everytime he took the bus at the Kimball Junction Transit Center and was always interested in the series of aluminum pieces. Pete says this art, although not glaringly obvious, makes a bus passenger’s experience so much more pleasant. This is what makes all public art so special, the fact that it really adds some value and meaning to a person’s day when they least expect it. 

You can view his piece above at the Kimball Junction Transit Center at 1899 West Ute Blvd. Park City, UT.

Thanks to SCPAAB Board member, Pete Van Stee, for the insight. Stay tuned for more Summit County public art favorites in the coming months, and learn more about the Summit County Art Board here.