Courtyard Fountain at the Salk Institute

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Tomorrow (Sunday 11/27/11) I'll be at Santa Ana for the Patchwork Art Festival, and next weekend (12/2/11 - 12/4/11) at the San Diego Art Festival in Del Mar at the Fairgrounds.

Today's image was taken at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. Built in the 1960s largely through a $20,000,000 grant by March of Dimes, Jonas Salk, the developer of the polio vaccine, selected world-renowned architect Louis I. Kahn to design it. One of the best known icons of architecture in southern California, it stands as a model for building a research facility, both in terms of functionality and inspiration, a true temple of science.

A courtyard with the institute's buildings symmetrically left and right faces the open expanse of the westward sky to the Pacific ocean. This fountain bisects the courtyard lengthwise with a narrow water channel.

This was done with a pair of 'point & shoot' cha-cha shots with a small digital 2-D camera. This image is a phantogram, and I invite you to print this image if you'd like to see it properly.

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