Chinati Field, 2001 (header and 3 details)

Another outdoor installation done while AIR at the Chinati Foundation, a field was filled with large, phosphorescent-painted rocks. I put an ad in the local paper inviting all to a chili dinner I made, telling them to bring hiking shoes and flashlights. We spent the early evening at Marfa Ruins (a Light Room) and then walked over to the field. It was very dark, no moon; we carried flashlights. I said, "There's art in the field. Use your flashlights, and when you think you've found it, turn your flashlight off. Then you'll know if it's art or not." The rocks glowed when the flashlights went off, and it was phenomenally beautiful. One person said it looked like the stars above had fallen down into the field. Beautiful experience. It took place on the longest day of the year.

Materials:  paint, light, rocks, field, flashlights

June, 2001, Marfa TX

ROYGBVR Ripples, 2000

This work is seen from outside the building. Looking at 2 sides of the building, we twice see the color of the light change across the spectrum, colors mixing within each window. We see the building as a solid form, light streaming from the openings, the windows, into the great darkened space outside. Interior versus exterior once again.

Materials:  windows, light fixtures, theatre gels, paper

Scale:  each window is approximately 5' x 12', with a depth of about 2'

2000, Installed at Gale Gates, Brooklyn, NY

ROYGBVR, 1999-2001

Here light is viewed only from outside the Stadtische Galerie, Wurzburg. The viewer sees light change across the spectrum in the 6 windows of the building. The piece appeared on the front page of two papers, and was kept up for 2 years by request. The neighborhood literally reflected the piece, by rain and snow, and peoples' responses.

Materials:  light fixtures, theatre gels, paper, windows

Städtische Galerie, Würzburg, Germany

Day In, Day Out, 1999

This installation had 2 components. The nighttime piece is a moving image of white clouds on blue sky projected from the building onto the ground, while in the daytime piece, daylight enters 3 windows, crossing the wall opposite, with one light image caught, painted at a particular moment in time. At night there is an image of daytime projected into the darkness, and during the day, there is an image of real light coming in through a window, recombining with the painted light image. This pair of works is called "Day In, Day Out".

Materials:  paint, light, windows, wall, projected moving image, ground, Interior wall is approximately 10' x 18'

Heidenheim, Germany

30 Rue Mazarine, 1999

Two glass-enclosed niches in the gallery walls were sealed off and lined with light-reflective mylar, darkening the interior (with an opening to view inside). Fog drifted into the niches from below, and lasers bounced throughout the niche interiors, reflected from all surfaces and showing, shifting through the fog as it drifted upwards.

Materials:  lasers, fog, wood, mylar, glass

Galerie Arnaud LeFebvre, Paris