Yellow Flow
Yellow Flow is a public sculptural installation integrated into the exterior of a sports hall in Västra Brotorp, completed in 2014.
Powder-coated 2 mm stainless steel, fiber optics, climbing wall.
Yellow Flow is a sculptural installation integrated into the exterior of a sports hall, facing both a school and a newly developed residential area. The work takes its starting point in the concept of flow — a state of total engagement where time and surroundings momentarily dissolve. In an educational context, where mental activity benefits from physical movement, the work proposes the site as a meeting place for different forms of flow: bodily, cognitive, and social.
The sculpture appears as a frozen movement: a massive accumulation of color that has taken sculptural form. Though physically static, it moves perceptually between two openings high up on the climbing wall. On one side, a stream seems to have reached the ground, expanded, and become bodily. Is it emerging, or retreating? The highly polished surface reflects weather conditions and approaching bodies, continuously incorporating its surroundings.
Embedded within the wall are evenly spaced openings for climbing holds. From these, small points of light begin to appear. As darkness falls, the light intensifies. At night, the illuminated pattern on the wall aligns with the actual starry sky above, merging the architectural surface with a larger cosmic field.