Sand glides, and light shines in the East Village on a journey through time on a new art installation in the center.
“LAPS: A Journey Through Time – Here and Now,” designed by Olivier Landreville in collaboration with Serge Maheu, offers an interactive art exhibition where visitors can observe the passage of time.
Six nearly eight-foot hourglass figures stretch through 401 Robert D. Ray Drive. Wheels attached to each hourglass allow visitors to the installation to rotate the hourglasses and observe and hear the sand sinking from side to side while the light shines through the night to provide a new perspective on time.
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“LAPS will give Downtown residents, workers and visitors a chance to experience time in a unique way as they spend quality time with friends and family in Downtown DSM and take the opportunity to experience all that Downtown has to offer in terms of restaurants, retailers, facilities and more during the month of April, “said Tiffany Tauscheck, Chief Operations Officer of the Greater Des Moines Partnership and President of Downtown DSM, Inc., in a press release on the installation.
LAPS is a temporary installation in the East Village. The installation will remain open between March 31 and April 30.
This marks another installation from the Greater Des Moines Partnership in Operation Downtown. Another planned installation “Borealis” will debut shortly after technical difficulties with light sensors on Eightth Street on the viaduct.
Operation Downtown is working to create a cleaner and safer Downtown through implementing changes that boost the local economy.