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by Don Cowen

This beautiful and unique glass sculpture stands outside the front entrance to the Optical Sciences Center. The sculpture was created as the result of an accident in the Optical Sciences laboratory. The artist, Don Cowen, was trying to split a glass disk to make a lens when the disk "exploded" into multiple fragments. The artist mounted several pieces in a steel frame to fabricate this sculpture. The Artist never named the piece and will not tell admirers what it represents to him. "It is as many things to as many people . . . " Cowen worked for The University of Arizona Optical Sciences center from 1965 to 1983. Cowen also painted a mural relating the history of science in the Flandrau Planetarium.