San Antonio's Saga in Lights

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While in San Antonio for Pittcon, an instrumentation conference, I stayed across the square from San Fernando Cathedral. The parish is displaying a work by light-show artist Xavier de Richemont that depicts the history of the city. 

The first night, I guessed wrong that it would look cool from the rooftop restaurant at the AC Hotel. It was thoroughly dull from there. Lucky for me, the next night a crowd was gathered again and I took the time to sit there on ground level. What an amazing show!

A weakness is that it assumes more existing knowledge of San Antonio than most tourists have. A more generous way to say that is that the piece is most targeted at the people who live there and know their city's story. I think that subset of the audience must walk away amazing and affirmed. 









It lingers here for a long time, both in the main show where everything is moving and in the epilogue where it shows several stills for about 15 seconds each. Who is she?

For actual Pittcon coverage, head over to cen.acs.org Monday morning at 6am. We're trying a posting time for the early riser reader. 

 

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