The White Bear Marina sailing history informed the design and creation by James Brenner Sculpture with Aaron Marx. The stainless steel is an abstract visual representation of how the air moves off the sail to propel the boat.
Built of stainless steel, this sculpture is inspired by the history of sailing, boat building, and the mathematics of fluid dynamics. Considering the ideas and methods of construction of boat hulls, this work uses ruled surface geometry as a formal language, and is a representation of the swirling forms found in fluid dynamics of water flowing by the a hull and wind spinning off of the sail of a boat. At a site where innovations transformed the history of inland sailing, this work remembers the past and looks forward to the future.
