Trillium Light Bath (Copy)
Trillium Light Bath
Gallery Without Walls
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on exhibit 2025-2027
Gallery Without Walls 〰️ on exhibit 2025-2027
This project is sponsored in part by a grant from the Clackamas County Cultural Coalition (managed by the Clackamas County Arts Alliance) and made possible by funding from the Oregon Cultural Trust
This project originated from a desire to address our cultural difficulty in processing collective grief surrounding climatic precarity and the consequent effects of rapidly shifting landscapes due to the rise in permacrises and pivotal natural disasters.
When considering a regional symbol for contemplative reflection, The Pacific Trillium (Trillium ovatum) immediately came to mind because of its universal associations with rebirth, purity and the interconnectedness of nature. These rich meanings are inherent in the very name assigned to its taxonomic nomenclature: Latin for in threes (Trillium), egg shaped (ovatum). Throughout the world the number three carries profound significance across disciplines and cultures. We see its effects in geometry, physics, religions, art, botany and biology; even down to the very foundational genetic structure of lifeforms i.e. DNA condons. The egg also holds universal symbolism of life, creation, renewal and potentiality.
This project serves as a public sanctuary wherein patrons are invited to symbolically bathe themselves in prismatic light to wash away the grime/gloom of climatic grief and solastalgia, provide hope and to encourage both contemplative and communal activism towards the possibilities of an Earth reborn into ecologic syntony.
Sketch-up renderings of concept design- light transitions dawn, daybright, dusk.
