Signal Sequence

​

---

 This is a gateway sculpture to the south end of the Colorado State University campus in Fort Collins, Colorado. It includes a 24‑foot granite and stainless steel spire and four other stones forming an arc through the trees, across a path and to a bench. The 1999 artwork is part of the Colorado Art in Public Places Program and is in front of the Molecular, Biological and Radiological Building.  As a metaphor for RNA being sequenced from DNA, the sculpture has a colored sequence of stones that is duplicated on the wall of the building with small mounted slabs of the same color sequence. The backrest has symbols for ACGT molecules and a Zf enzyme.

---