"Windy" A Tornado (Sculpture) in Manhattan on the High Line by Meriem Bennani

Finally got to check out Meriem Bennani’s “Windy” sculpture over on the highline. It’s a simple design but pretty cool, as you can see in this video:

And as a storm chaser I can even confirm that it’s spinning the right direction (for the northern hemisphere, anyway). More on the project from this website:

Breaking norms of traditional static sculpture, Windy is a motorized spinning tornado that will rotate at varying speeds for a full year. Standing at just over nine feet tall, the sculpture is made from approximately 200 stacked foam disks. Electrical bike motors comprise the spine of the sculpture and connect to each section of foam layers. Each engine is uniquely programmed by the artist so all sections spin at varying speeds and sequences, creating unique loops that never repeat. In this way, Windy reflects Bennani’s video practice: the time sequences of a multi-channel video installation where each screen is on its own, unsynchronized loop.