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66 × 66” triptych | C O M M I S S I O N | 2 0 2 5
This job began as an art installation set to span the 8’x3’ curved nook space in the Serenity Room at Boston Children’s Hospital.
The Serenity Room is a dedicated quiet space serving as a deeply peaceful emotional sanctuary for young patients, their families, and hardworking staff.
My proposal was to create thousands of marine-hued resin discs layered upon 4 long and flexible 1/8th” plexiglass panels to stretch from end to end of the nook in one smooth and gentle curve. The piece was to sort of “float” in a custom designed “cleat” (avoiding the barriers and limitations of a fixed frame) while being backlit with a custom designed linear LED band hidden from below.
After weeks turned into months of sketches, demos, and brainstorming meetings with a dozen designers from the mill working group, to the lighting studio, the Boston Children’s in-house interiors people, the art consultancy, and myself, the design got shelved as it ended up falling too far out of budget.
So although disappointed, I regrouped and modified this commission to a wooden framed 4 layered triptych with the same theme of “Movement in Water”. The installation was moved to a yoga + wellness communal space. Although the original idea was innovative and exciting for me an artist, things happen and life causes us to pivot and shift and we must keep working and reworking ideas, never giving up. The key is maintaining the spark, the energy, the fever of creativity, and the clarity of vision throughout the twists and turns and ups and downs… because at the end of the day creativity never dies, it doesn’t get shelved… it persists, bubbling away just under the surface in spite of and often, if you’re lucky, because of life’s limitations.
So with that, I introduce to you, Boston Children’s Movement in Water.
