This collaborative installation and performance with musician and composer Jake Thiede explores the summer solstice as a unique marker of the seasons. On the longest day of the year, we combined our creative practices in an effort to create a meditative space to consider this long evening of light and what it means for our lives. This one-evening event took place at sunset, with my work interacting with the light as it changed, and Jake’s improvised instrumental composition engaging the senses through sound. Participants were invited to walk through the installation, sit still and listen, explore different areas of the room from different angles — all as the sun set.

Through the work, I hoped to explore the in-between moments and spaces as the ones that make up our very lives. What if the cyclical, revolving nature of our day-to-day lives — our waking, and humdrum tasks, our sleeping, the weeks that become seasons, the seasons that become years — is a way that God in his grace draws us to himself? What if, like moths, we are migratory, only here for an instant, for one little life? What if we are built to find the Light -- and to reflect it?

The ordinary, the mundane, for me, has long been a space in which I notice God most — I see him in a slow morning, that first hot sip of coffee, that pale blue light of dawn. The worn-soft sheets that welcome me to rest in the evening urge be to breathe thanks. I pause at the dappled light between the shifting shadows of tree branches and wonder as I walk.

Through this installation, immersed in light and sound, I extend an invitation to take a moment to pause and consider -- consider the hands that hold you, the light that warms you, the ways you might see wonder in the ordinary.