Harries/Heder Public Art

Lucid Moment Temporary Installation

Concept

Location:	Fine Arts Center, Regis College, Weston MA, 1999
Size:	40' x 30' x 14'
Fabrication:	Scott Tiede
Materials:	Light, glass, cable, c-clamps, plastic funnels, mineral oil and salt.

13 lamps are suspended from the ceiling at different heights. The light is projected through the mineral oil on salt circles on the floor below. Each lamp is pulsed at a different rate, to create annular rings on the floor, some lamps are grouped so that they become clusters of movements. A circuit board that pulses a glass bead, threaded on micro filament, into the center of the glass dish containing the mineral oil is hidden in each funnel.The light also projects onto the translucent plastic funnel and to the ceiling above, creating a sandwich of annular projections pulsing at different rates.

The experience in the space is very calm and meditative. The salt circles on the floor create controlled pathways for the viewer through the space. Christine Temin, art critic for the Boston Globe, described the piece:

"Clarity, freshness and freedom from cliché characterize "Lucid Moment". So many installations are housed in darkened rooms, both for spooky effects and because darkness can hide technical sins. "Lucid Moment" is at daylight level. It's like a New England Colonial church versus a Romanesque one. It suggests reason rather than the irrational.
"..."Lucid Moment" can make your thoughts ripple outward just as those reflections do."

Installation

Detail - Lamp

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