Prometheus Lights

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Science the Light Within US
2017
Paper, fabric, paint, pastel, wood, LED, plexiglas, wires
168x150x72 inches

Installation view. Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA


The installation assembled four 3-D Prometheus Lights, Pandora Light, a Foot Light, three water-cut aluminum stars from Orion’s Belt, and a circling Crow.

Prometheus Lights #1,#2, #3,#4 with Foot Light
2017
Paper, fabric, paint, pastel, wood, LED, plexiglas
127x60x36 inches

Installation view. Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA


Prometheus Lights #1, #2, #3, #4 are impressions of sidewalks around the Harvard University Science Center. The intention is to sandwich a layer of art between the upwards energy of the earth and the downwards march of students, scientists and researchers. The light structures are the size of a human torso. The LEDs within the structures represent the human heart and imagination.

Prometheus Light #1 with Foot Light
2016
Paper, fabric, paint, pastel, wood, LED, plexiglas, wires
20x20.5x8 inches

The cord of each light plugs into a thin sidewalk facsimile, the Foot Light, enabling viewers to look down into earth’s core and Prometheus' gift of fire.

Prometheus Light #2
2016
Paper, fabric, paint, pastel (before wiring)
21x20.5x8 inches

Surface markings include paint, pastel, paper, stencils.

Prometheus Light #3
2016
Paper, fabric, paint, pastel, wire
19x20.5x8 inches

Light #3’s fabric backing (structural reinforcement) is fringed and dyed.

Prometheus Light #4
2016
Paper, fabric, paint, pastel, wire
22x20.5x8 inches

Pencil-made spirals on Light #4 reveal the forces on the sidewalk’s underside.

Pandora Light
2017
Mixed media
15x17x15 inches

The outside surfaces of The Pandora Light are painted with sea creatures; the inside is the microscopic world. In the Greek panoply, Pandora was the first human woman.

Crow
2016
Mixed media, paper, wire, paint
22x2x12 inches

The Crow, an omen of change, lives in the void and has no sense of time. Even though an eagle ate Prometheus’s liver, I took artistic license and made a Crow to do the job.

Prometheus Lights #1,#2, #3,#4 with Foot Light
2018
Paper, fabric, paint, pastel, wood, LED, plexiglas, wires
127x60x36 inches

Installation view. Boston East Gallery, MA


Installation of “The Prometheus Lights” at Boston East Gallery, on the waterfront in East Boston.

At Boston East Gallery opening with Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker
2018

(Mayor’s Office Photo by Jeremiah Robinson)

Process images