Fall, LED String, 2018
This installation was created for Good Friday—a day in the Christian calendar that commemorates the death of Jesus Christ. My work often explores transformation, using light as illustrate movement and to gesture toward the unseen, spiritual realm.
In this piece, three LED strands extended 16 feet up the stage wall before cascading 30 feet down to the church’s entrance. The line of light suggested both the vertical form of the cross and the total arc of Christ’s journey: descending from heaven to Earth, then beyond, into the realm of the dead.
Historic church architecture often adopts a cruciform layout, where the horizontal arms symbolize community and gathering. By omitting that element, the installation emphasizes a solitary vertical path—a descent that becomes raw, intimate, and, paradoxically, more human. The work invites viewers to sense the spiritual gravity of that motion and, within it, to locate their own moments of surrender, passage, and renewal.