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This image wasn't taken with a fish-eye lens but is rather a reflection of the TTU campus between the SUB and the Library.  The seven-foot stainless spherical sculpture by Po Shu Wang is part of the Texas Tech Public Art Program.  Entitled "Comma" the piece is inspired by the West Texas climate and ponders the question "what does the sun sound like?"  By turning a knob on the orb, bronze bells -- one tuned to the sun's musical tonality of 1782.6 Hz -- resonate.

 

Comma --2007

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas

www.lubbockarts.org/ttupab.pdf