Kei Ito, Night Lights Denver and The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins project footage of nuclear bomb on the Daniels and Fisher Tower.
Tomorrow morning while most of Denver sleeps, light will strike the Daniels and Fisher Tower, memorializing the birth of the atom bomb.
Projected neon green light will wash over the tower, showing an explosion in reverse: a mushroom cloud contracting, and the bomb’s victims — mannequins, houses, vehicles — reconstructing, returning to their prior state and to a pre-nuclear world.
Kei Ito
The project, a video called Aborning New Light by Japan-born and Baltimore-based artist Kei Ito, is a reconstruction of archival government nuclear testing footage, edited to show the bomb testing in reverse. It’s a collaboration with Night Lights Denver, which projects large scale works of art downtown, and The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins.
“There’s this idea that art is for certain people and it’s in certain places, and I love art for everybody,” said Hamidah Glasgow, executive director and curator of The Center for