Jim Cogswell's Enchanted Beanstalk

Jim Cogswell's Enchanted Beanstalk (2011)

An adhesive vinyl mural applied to eight floors of windows, covering 11,000 square feet of glass across the west face of the new Mott Children's and Van Voigtlander Women's Hospital at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor.

This timelapse video captures the constant changes in response to the incidence and intensity of light determined by weather and time of day. Under direct sunlight, shadows falling across interior surfaces transport viewers to a shifting world of insubstantial presences.