CERRILLOS HILLS STATE PARK

Our ANALEMMA is a solar calendar. Each day the sun's path across the sky is a little higher or lower, depending on the season, than it was the day before. The rays of the sun passing through that south-facing circular window (and through the small target in that window called a GNOMON) at noon every day casts a bright spot on the floor of the INFOSCULPTURE. In the days leading to the summer solstice the spot moves closer and closer to the south wall (each day the Sun is rising higher in the sky), and as we move into winter it works its way up toward the north banco (lower in the sky each day). The "lopsided 8" design in the floor of the INFOSCULPTURE is derived from the path of that noontime solar spot throughout the year. See it for yourself!

The INFOSCULPTURE was designed and built under the direction of the incomparable Buck Dant. The ANALEMMA was suggested by one of our volunteers, Julia, who did the computations and the design, and who, over the next year, is going to be very busy calibrating it. Julia wants to hear your comments, questions and suggestions for the ANALEMMA. Please send her a note Thank you.

Poured on December 4th, this is the first glimpse of our colored-concrete walls. These photos are of the north banco, or bench. Artist Ricky Phelps did a fantastic job on a difficult task, making it interesting, colorful and attractive, and also blending it into the landscape.

Hey! We're getting pretty good at this. Great team today! We finished hours early. Thanks to Buck & Bill & mixmaster Todd & Rio & Ross & Chris & Linda & Hugh & Sigmund, and thanks to Harrold of Broken Saddle for the refreshments.

A day spent playing in the mud.

Getting down and dirty. (Kiosk volunteer hours surpass 200 on this day.) Forms and rebar follow soon.

Under the direction of Mike Sharber & Associates, and the eye of Buck Dant, M.A. in Architecture, and with the enthusiastic assistance of Teacher Jody Drew and the students of the Santa Fe Academy for Technology and Classics, we've finally begun! Thanks also to Coalition stalwarts Rikki Cohen and Todd Brown... and that big guy with the camera.