Public Art for Department of Environmental Quality/Oregon Public Health Laboratory, Hillsboro, 2009

Commissioned by Oregon Arts Commission

This artwork responds to ideas of laboratory and landscape. An ordinary, iconic element of the contained world of the laboratory - the microscope slide - is abstracted and transformed into representations of the outer world, the landscape around us. Abstracted images, translucent color on glass, evoke the landscape.

earth, water, sky

Several overlapping, translucent, slides are layered to form a meditative assemblage on the high wall of the lobby - a play of color, pattern, imagery, micro/macro. The images refer to the sea, sky, forest, river, contours, land - abstracted fragments of the natural landscape - transformed by scale, abstraction, overlapping references, and juxtaposition of imagery. They allude to ideas about perception, about seeing something in various ways.