Large scale public art installation with projections.

Designed by Anibal Pella-Woo and Ann LePore, this collaborative project is an audio-visual installation for the Weehawken Water Tower. The Weehawken Water Tower stands to become one of the identifying visual landmarks of this diverse, dynamic and rapidly changing region. Utilizing a number of video projectors, images of slowly rising and falling water will be rear projected from the inside of the building on to a number of its windows on all four sides of the building. We feel it is conceptually important to create this effect mechanically in order to further reflect on the history of the building and the mechanical pumps originally used within it.

We have created a self- contained “Water projection system” which consists of optical elements and a water tank that automatically fills and empties and acts as a giant slide The image of the rising and falling water would then be transferred to video for digital processing and projection. The images themselves will be visible from outside of the building to passersby. In addition, the light from these projections will be visible from much further away. The choice of image is meant to reflect on the original function of the building, and thereby comment on its history in relation to its geographical location.