Audubon Society Center Donor Wall
© 2018
Media: acrylic paint on wall and plexiglass
Location: proposal
Proposal for the 13 foot-tall Donor Recognition Wall and lobby, where the names of 50 donors will appear on the bluebirds.
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***For those of you with low vision:
These images are my proposal for an installation at the Audubon Society Center, answering their call for the design of a 14-foot-tall wall that lists the names of their donors. The wall is filled with the image of a sycamore tree full of autumn's yellow leaves against a blue sky. It is painted in pale paint on several transparent layers of clear resin, letting ambient light bounce around within the painting. The palette is essentially just yellows, with siennas, and cyan blues. The eye is led to the interstices between the leaves where the sky is glimpsed in blue shapes that metamorphose, as your eye follows them upwards, into the silhouettes of birds, bluebirds against a yellow sky, rising up to where they are lifting off the painting to float as blue plexiglas silhouettes hanging from the ceiling on invisible fishing line, slowly moving as currents of air move around the room. The painting is on several layers of clear resin that form a shallow translucent box filled with ambient light. Each of the birds that has fully formed has inscribed on it the name of a donor.
