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In September I am going to Chicago, and hope to view a neon sculpture at the O'Hare Airport that my father worked on with Artist Michael Hayden. My father was an electronic genius, and worked with Michael on several of his neon sculptures. I contacted Michael recently to ask about "The Sky's the Limit" at O'Hare, I would be extremely disappointed to get there and find out it was in an area accessible to arriving passengers only. (My sister and I are driving into Chicago, and flying out) When I contacted him he told me about his most recent scuplture, right here in my own backyard! "Rapids" is one of two sculptures at the US Bank building in downtown Sacramento. The description of it: ""Rapids," an array of about 200 mirrors and lighted panels hanging down five floors and spanning 84 feet in the tower's seven-story atrium. Each 2-foot by 2-foot panel resembles a smooth white piece of gum on one side – Hayden calls them "Chiclets" – that contains an LED video projector developed by Lighting Science. The other side is a holographic two-way acrylic mirror. Hayden will hang the panels from an aluminum structure running across the atrium's expanse, and the south-facing mirrored side of each panel will cast rainbows by reflecting sunlight pouring through the building's clear-glass exterior. The LED sides of the piece will carry more water video, giving the viewers the sense they are looking at frothing river rapids tumbling down from the seven-story ceiling." It really is beautiful, and I was delighted to finally be able to see one of his completed works. I am keeping my fingers crossed for O'Hare. (Still don't know if I will get to see it!)