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Daisy Chain

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Daisy Chain was the stage for Mosswood Meltdown, a music festival hosted by John Waters at Mosswood Park in Oakland, California. The name refers to a wiring scheme used by stage technicians that recalls a garland of daisy flowers. The stage design is made up of 20 colorful pinwheels, reinforced by a PVC frame. The colors & patterns of the stage are dynamic, changing as the pinwheels spin.

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There were 3 limitations for the stage: No scaffolding, excessive wind, and a small budget. We decided to embrace these limitations, brainstorming around structures that worked with the wind, were cheap to build and incorporated a scaffolding system that was supportive as well as aesthetically cohesive. We found pinwheels addressed all of the design constraints.

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To make the stage design more dynamic, we took inspiration from Optical art, creating illusions by playing with patterns as well as colors in the foreground & background of the structure.

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The structural system was designed by Adam Miller. I developed the overall look of the stage with Spenser Atlas, focusing on patterns and the color scheme. To construct the twenty pinwheels, we created a four-person assembly-line system comprised of cutting, taping, assembling, and testing each piece. The final structure was installed and reinforced by a crew of about a dozen volunteers.

 
 
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2019 - Designed by Adam Miller, Spenser Atlas & Lieyah Dagan. Photographed by Lieyah Dagan
Press: SF Gate, CBS SF / Bay Area, Video Coverage