“Blue Flower/Flor Azul” is an outdoor piece where the image of a small drop of blue ink expanding into clear water is optically enlarged and vertically inverted into a 28 foot image and projected against a circular screen installed on the projection wall on the west entry of the building.    The piece is comprised of two separate but co-dependant elements, the ink projector located on the amphitheater and the projection screen installed over the projection stucco wall. The only element that connects them is the beam of light going from the first to the second one.

The screen works both as a projection surface at night and as an instrument to depict the image of the ink as monochro- matic pixels. The first system creates an image by adding light; the second one by subtracting it from the sunlight hitting the screen.    During the day the shadow of The George Pearl Hall building defines the frontier between the added and subtracted image on the screen, between the monochromatic image of the ink silhouette and the cinematic Image. The shadow is in continuous movement as the position of the sun changes with the time of the day and season.