Hundreds of reflective "pennies" form this spherical sculpture, created by Giles Miller's London design studio for Devon's Broomhill Sculpture Park (+ movie).
The Penny-Half Sphere is made up of hundreds of small, circular stainless steel pieces that reflect their surroundings as they move.

Each circle is embedded into a gridded framework made up of lengths of walnut timber. They come together to form a larger sphere that has been suspended over a stream.
The sculpture is designed to move in the breeze, causing the sphere to rotate and create flashing reflections of the nearby trees and water as it does so.

"The structure appears as a mass of light that evokes a kind of digital chaos," said the studio. "In construction it is in fact the antithesis of technological and merely mirrors light in a controlled way so as to appear as a kind of double-sided portal, contrasting as well as relating to the surrounding woodlands." The wood was chosen as a reference to the surrounding trees. Miller aimed to make the sculpture merge into the woodland and give the appearance of pennies floating in midair.

The shape of the pennies was chosen to echo the round form of the sculpture, as well as a reference to the "fundamentally organic shape" associated with natural sources of light.

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