To Whom it may Concern,

I would like to install an interactive light installation as a part of Sound Transit's STart Program. The piece is site specific and the dimensions are variable. I tend to call it, simply, a garden of light. The materials used are hand blown glass, sewn coffee filters, fiber optics, and LED lights driven by computer and custom electronics.

In this installation, I aim for the light to pulse, breathe, and respond to pedestrian traffic, reflecting the nature of the Capitol Hill neighborhood and the flow of people therein. Given the nature of this work, the piece will have the greatest impact at night, when light disturbance from other sources is minimized.

Additionally, I have been fortunate to have the support and seemingly inexhaustible interest of my current technical designer, Clay Roach. A graduate of the University of Texas in Computer Science, Clay has been working with me to develop a user interface that allows me to compose rhythms and translate sounds and vibrations into light. The Garden of Light will be the culmination of the last several months of this new work in sculpture and light composition.

I have been working with incandescent light for fifteen years, designing lamps and displays to alter a variety of environments. Over the last several years I have moved into working with projected light, embedded LEDs and fiber optic cable as a means of creating volumes of light that respond to and reflect the environment and audience that witnesses them.

I have installed similar light based, interactive installations at the (now defunct and greatly missed) Consolidated Works Gallery, Capitol Hill Arts Center, Art Patch Gallery, and outside at Pilchuck Glass School. Last year I volunteered with the Seattle Art Museum's teen and family outreach programs as the lighting designer for Art Attack, a monthly art event held at SAM. Regardless of the size and shape of the exhibition space that is made available for this project, I feel confident that I can install the piece within a limited time frame. Of course, I will need access to electricity.

Thank you for your time and consideration of my proposal. If you have any questions this application, or concerns regarding downloading, decompressing, or viewing the files attached, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,

Monika Proffitt

 

 

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