Kelsey Buenz, a Greene County High School graduate and a sophomore at Iowa State University, was one of 75 architecture students involved in creating a Prisma, a kinetic sculpture that’s more than 70 feet long and more than 1300 square feet. Prisma is on display at Reiman Gardens on the ISU campus.
The project was a semester project, starting with surveying, going through testing, and then construction. The wood, rope and acrylic prism structure includes 1,000 prisms, 14,000 feet of rope, and 2,000 knots. It’s not intended as art only to be viewed, but art to climb on and enjoy.
Prisma is part of the “Wind, Waves & Light” exhibit now through November.
