Installation photographs from Krebs’s public art sculpture The White Tornado, 1979.
Site-specific sculpture installed in the atrium of the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Topeka, KS. Commissioned by the U.S. General Services Administration Art-in-Architecture Program.

An environmental sculpture 60 feet high with a tornado-like element on which white neon “lightning bolts” are placed to form a five-pointed star when viewed from below - sunlight, prisms, white neon, white painted aluminum, mirrors and scrim fabric. Restoration completed by McKay Lodge Laboratory Fine Art Conservation in 2017.

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For more on The White Tornado see the Public Art Gallery on RockneKrebs.com.

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