Join us on the Library’s front lawn for a reception honoring Belchertown-based artist, Brendan Stecchini, and his sculpture, REFLECTIVE WIND. The reception will feature music, light refreshments, and the opportunity for people of all ages to build their own mini-sculpture to take home. The sculpture is on loan to the Clapp Memorial Library from the artist and will be on display on the front lawn through mid-October.

Brendan Livio Stecchini has resided in western Massachusetts since 1972 and has spent the last 25 years in Belchertown. Throughout this time, Mr. Stecchini has had numerous art exhibitions and awards in painting and sculpture. For the last three decades, his focus has been on creating public, kinetic, interactive sculpture and he has had installations and commissions in cities, parks, museums, and colleges.

His sculpture, REFLECTIVE WIND, is designed to be a visually dynamic and engaging experience, viewed up close and from afar, contemplative of the surrounding environment and our place in it. The artwork is an equilateral, triangular pyramid, derived from ancient history, mathematics, and engineering. It distinctly defines and locates a single reference point on our global Earth and uses stainless steel mirrors to reach out and reflect the surroundings.

REFLECTIVE WIND is perhaps like a scientific instrument, a lighthouse; the round mirror projects light and reflections, turning 360 degrees and oscillating in the wind somewhat like a weathervane. It is the center and focal point of the sculpture, looking in and reflecting out. The mirrors on the outside of the legs capture light, the sky, and the upper reaches of trees. The mirrors on the inside reflect the ground and our footprints. Finally, the polished, stainless steel rod on top points the entire sculpture to the heavens, like a lightning rod.