Courtship Display of the Western Wind Turbine

2018

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This sculpture imagines wind turbines just fractionally more organic. They would share the world with other creatures of the air. In kinship with birds, would they adopt the courtship displays that many birds have learned to perform?

 

In this representation, the wind turbines have slightly altered their three-way radial symmetry for the bilateral symmetry of other flying creatures. The original separation of 3 blades at 120° is replaced by 2 blades separated by the Golden Angle common to many organic structures. It is found by applying the Golden Ratio φ to the circumference of a circle, giving an arc that subtends 137.05°, the Golden Angle. The third blade remains as a vestigial counterbalance.

 

Two sets of rotors share a mast for their courtship. They both lean, sharing an angle and the wind, and dance no longer alone.