Last spring, when Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa sold Raleigh on a $2.5 million outdoor art display with a cloud of floating lights and a wall of mist he opined about the beauty of falling water – how it was special, like rain and waterfalls – and better than the water in old fashioned fountains which shoots upwards.

Turns out there’s a problem Plensa missed. For his mist of water to float downward through his cloud of lights requires some pretty large pipes above Fayetteville Street. So, we’re back to a fountain.

And oh, yes, one more thing. Birds. The city art fathers are now wrestling with the problem of how to keep Plensa’s webs of lights from turning into a roost.

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