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Quark Park Features Goldston-Triefeldt Plasma Sculpture | |
| More than a few heads turned as a plump swirl of pink made its way — on the back of a truck — from PPPL to downtown Princeton recently. Trenton sculptor Rein Triefeldt, inspired by the fusion research led by PPPL Director Rob Goldston, created a giant pink plasma sculpture for Quark Park in Princeton Borough. | |
| The park is a temporary garden off Paul Robeson Place that joins
art and science. Developed by Princeton architect Kevin Wilkes and
landscape designers Peter Soderman and Alan Goodheart (the three creators
of Writers Block a few years ago at the same location), it includes about
14 art installations that were inspired by the work of scientists from
Princeton University, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Scripps
Research Institute, Rutgers University, and other scientific institutions.
Scientist-artist teams collaborated on the garden installations.
The Goldston-Triefeldt collaboration produced Stellarator, which includes a resin-coated Styrofoam plasma sculpture inside a stellarator-style cage modeled on the National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX) structure. PPPL provided the frame for the sculpture. Along the path with plantings from MOON Landscaping are an NCSX vacuum vessel segment prototype on loan from PPPL and a box with two magnetized balls representing atoms. "It was great fun to see our science through the eyes of an artist. Rein perceived the mysterious beauty of NCSX, and created a delightful celebration of plasma," said Goldston. The Stellarator installation is in good company. Next door is a sculpture from the team of Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman, Princeton University electrical engineering Professor James Sturm, and artist Nancy Cohen. Nearby is a sundial from the team of Institute for Advanced Study Professor Emeritus Freeman Dyson, U.S. Representative Rush Holt (NJ–12), and architect Allan Kehrt. |
 PPPL staff assist with the installation of Stellarator in Quark Park. |
| The park, a work in progress since July, is open to the public this
month and expected to remain in operation through Thanksgiving. For a
comprehensive list of the scientist-artist teams and more information
about the park, please visit: http://www.princetonoccasion.org/quarkpark/.
Triefeldt said of the Stellarator installation, "For me this project is about the exchange of concepts and learning ...it's about peace on Earth through passive energy; about solving the riddle of abundant energy without hazardous by-products." |
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