{"id":23824,"date":"2023-09-20T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=23824"},"modified":"2023-09-21T00:18:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T04:18:02","slug":"andrew-mowbray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2023\/09\/20\/andrew-mowbray\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Mowbray\u2019s Wind-Driven Drawing Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In July, a nearly 20-foot-tall weather vane appeared at the edge of Provincetown harbor, next to Angel Foods, at 467 Commercial St. in the East End.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s Boston artist Andrew Mowbray’s 2009 sculpture \u201cTempest Prognosticator\u201d\u2014brought here through October by the Provincetown Public Art Foundation.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

White polyethylene fins turn the weathervane into the direction of the breeze or are pressed up and down by the force of the wind.<\/a> The movements cause a pen inside a canister on the black steel vertical axel to a produce a seismograph-like scribble of the weather\u2014horizontal for the wind\u2019s direction, vertical for the wind\u2019s power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI get to open this present and see what the weather did over the past week,\u201d Mowbray recently told The Provincetown Independent<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a functioning weathervane that creates a record, but at the same time it\u2019s creating a drawing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrew Mowbray’s 2009 sculpture \u201cTempest Prognosticator\u201d in Provincetown, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Andrew Mowbray’s 2009 sculpture \u201cTempest Prognosticator\u201d in Provincetown, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Andrew Mowbray’s 2009 sculpture \u201cTempest Prognosticator\u201d in Provincetown, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In July, a nearly 20-foot-tall weather vane appeared at the edge of Provincetown harbor, next to Angel Foods, at 467 Commercial St. in the East End. It\u2019s Boston artist Andrew Mowbray’s 2009 sculpture \u201cTempest Prognosticator\u201d\u2014brought here through October by the Provincetown Public Art Foundation. White polyethylene fins turn the weathervane into the direction of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[1175,1176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23824"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23904,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23824\/revisions\/23904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}