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About Sunspot

Our Mission:

Install engaging sculptures linking to stories that provoke deeper inquiry into the relationships between our valiant small planet and our local star. These portals open to better understanding of the physical mysteries that make life on Earth possible.

 

Interacting with a Sunspot
   

What does that mean?

artist rendering
Presidio Green, San Francisco

We want to place simple, eye-catching sculptures – a disk with an empty ‘spot’ – bearing a QR code our QRlinking by smartphone to a library of pages explaining light, energy, and our critical relationship with the Sun in places they’re likely to attract interest.

 

Who we are

Sunspot founder Tony BennettTony Bennett is an accomplished entrepreneur and constructor with a sharp eye for valuable resources not fully used. His current work involves quality replacement housing for the large number of people who lost their homes in California wildfires. Sunspot forced its way into his agenda because, as he says, “knowing where our sunlight comes from, and the compelling story of light as both particle and wave, is an underknown resource that needs more public understanding. We need to help with that.”
   
Michael PottsMichael Potts is a lifelong teacher with generations of scientists and engineers in his family. A Harvard educated jack-of-all-trades –  builder, writer, baker, webster, goldsmith, chef . . .  – he cheerfully accepted longtime friend and collaborator Tony's challenge to gather the science to expand the meaning of the Sunspot sculptures they  propose to erect as portals to improved understanding of human reliance on the energy freely rained down on us by our neighborhood star.




 

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