For more than a decade, Rein has been creating solar sculptures that produce energy from the sun and are scaled to provide the power for homes, museums, sculpture parks, arboretums, vineyards and public places. His work blends a commitment to traditional sculptural elements and materials with a dedication to 21st century solar technology, allowing every project to reflect its own unique sense of character.
"Stellarator"
Work Date: 2006. Medium: Aluminum, solar panels, electric motor. Dimensions: 16' H x 10' Diameter. Site: Quark Park, Princeton, NJ. Stellarator was a creative collaboration between kinetic sculptor Rein and Dr. Rob Goldston, Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory at Princeton University. The 16' structure represents Stellarator — a mechanism used to confine hot plasma with magnetic fields in order to sustain a controlled nuclear fusion reaction. The pink shape represents the plasma. The juniper tree represents the helix, the center magnetic coil of a stellarator. The tree is inverted, spiraling, live and fully irrigated. Lastly, the structure represents the housing of the stellarator.
