Butterfly Rest Stop, Janet Echelman

Echelman’s artwork titled Butterfly Rest Stop is a dynamic aerial sculpture installation for Kaleidoscope Park, a vibrant new public space in North Texas that features over 200 works of art.

Echelman's art practice explores the interconnectedness of humans and nature in the public sphere, and stems from the artist's fascination with interconnected systems of the natural world of which we are a small part.

This project involved extensive 3D modeling, form finding, and simulation of soft sculpture dynamics and tensile structures using Rhino 3D, Grasshopper 3D, and proprietary dynamic mesh relaxation software developed by the studio team.