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“The piece had been taken down … with all the LED’s in place, which meant that they would not survive the two to four years sitting outside,” she said, adding that she feels the city “took the whole remediation possibility off the table.”
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Why would storing the LEDs outside make any difference? It's an outdoor sculpture, they have never been protected from the elements.
I have never gotten the feeling that the artist is a particularly reasonable person and this doesn't help. Uplift, across the park required signage to keep kids in the adjacent splash fountain from slipping on the sculpture and cracking their heads on the sharp rock. Moving Surfaces used to play a rainbow during pride week which looked very cool, but I didn't see it the following year. I asked a friend who knew how the system worked, and he said that they weren't allowed to as the artist only allowed the sculpture to play their pre-approved lighting.
I get that the city hasn't been great about it, but maybe our art installations should be designed for long-term maintainability and not have sensitive components that require expensive, ongoing maintenance in perpetuity.
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