COMSOS
Design & Fabrication: Mac Van Dam & Parker Heyl
Shown at Shenzhen Light Festival 2025
COSMOS is a kinetic sculpture featuring a radial constellation of eight blooming figures made from mirrors and wooden linkages. Designed to scatter light into a complex, playful atmosphere, the installation enters into a spatial dialogue with its context. Its architecture draws from both natural and structural logics.
Each kinetic flowers, which we call a Cosmoblooms, was originally developed in 2023 and presented as individual freestanding pieces for the New York based rock band Crumb. The success of the Cosmoblooms quickly made them an iconic emblem for the band.
For this COSMOS proposal, they have been connected into a unified installation for COSMOS. During the day, the sculptures settle into stillness, offering themselves as quiet spatial objects to be appreciated for the physical craft; at night they shift into motion, and the mirrored surfaces generate moving constellations of light that sweep over the crowds and surrounding spaces. COSMOS embraces physical movement as a way of connecting to and celebrating the space we occupy. It hopes to remind us of the beauty found in the intangible aspects of the material world.
