





Client: MCAD, City of El Paso
Location: El Paso, TX, United States
Completion date: 2020
Artwork budget: $70,000
Project Team
Artist
Art Garcia
Museums and Cultural Affairs Department
City of El Paso
Overview
Whirlwind utilizes 29, plasma-cut aluminum rings, resting on a twenty-foot conical shape pole located at the RC Pote Roundabout in El Paso, TX. The art piece stands at 20 feet x 6 feet. Whirlwind is inspired by El Paso’s Chihuahuan Desert where whirlwinds can often be seen during wind season. The colored rings convey the hot air rotating on the ground (red and magenta) and cools (orange, yellow and blue) as it raises into the atmosphere.
Goals
The goal of the project was to include a public art piece into a new roundabout at a busy intersection. The art piece integrates nature and landscape into the roundabout and surroundings of the neighborhood.