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(c) photo copyright Ken Ilio.
Byeong Sam Jeon has worked as a member of the team of animators
that is working on the "thousand faces" portion being shown on the LED
screens of the fountain, in the Plensa Project(Crown Fountain) since
February 2004.
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Crown Fountain
Designed by Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa, the Crown Fountain features two 50-foot high glass block towers at each end of a shallow reflecting pool. The towers are activated with changing video images and lights, and water cascades from the top of each.
Anchoring the southwest corner of Millennium Park at Michigan Avenue and Monroe Streets, the Crown Fountain is a major addition to the city’s world-renowned public art collection. Inspired by the people of Chicago whose faces appear on the glass towers’ changing video images, this site-specific work creates both a unique meeting point and a dynamic space for silent reflection. Utilizing water, light, and glass, Plensa has created a bold statement that is sure to stimulate passers-by and invite them to enter and experience Millennium Park.
The fountain is a gift of the Crown and Goodman families of Chicago.
"I’m very proud obviously to do a piece in Chicago, because historically the city is a point of reference in architecture and public space," says Plensa. "There’s a tremendous possibility in this project to finally talk about the soul of the piece. I always believe that people give that soul by breathing life into the architecture. Real life. We are filming 1,000 faces for a large mosaic. One face appears for about 13 minutes on the screen. It’s a silent and quiet place, with only the sound of water. Then I did two long benches where people could just sit and relax.
"I have always maintained that sculpture has more to do with time than with such secondary problems as scale or space. Time being the sediment of experiences within a general memory where our recollections also fit. The finished work begins its own cycle, and just like another memory it becomes linked to the vaster memory, in which no chronology makes sense. Time is the substance of my work."
(Article from the millennium park website)
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1. Byeong Sam Jeon on the reception catalogue of the Plensa fountain project
2. night scenes
 
3. a bird's eye view of the fountain (3D Modeling), a view of test the fountain before the completion
(c) photo copyright Jaume Plensa.
4. map of the millenium park, view of contruction
5. inside of the fountain (lights and water injection part), test of water injection, installation of LED screen
6. presentation on project reception
7. project reception at SAIC Ballroom (April 7th, 2004)
Millenium Park website (http://www.millenniumpark.org)
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