Changing Rooms

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE  | ENVIRONMENT
CORNERSTONES FESTIVAL, SONOMA, CA,  2005

“Changing Rooms” is an installation that highlights the power in communal desire and action. Each individual wish becomes part of the design of a collective dream. Three interactive “Wishing Booths” disguised as trees are interspersed in a garden composition of living trees and richly textured green ground. Inside the printed foliage-patterned curtain, the vivid pink booth interior with steel tables is revealed. A small sign encourages writing a wish on one of the iridescent, sequin-like disks provided.

At the far end of the garden, a large Wish Room centers on a giant pendulous “wish chandelier”. Individual wish disks hang from the chandelier’s beaded chains. Over time each wish and dream, the prosaic and the profound, aggregate to make a poignant space. There is a strange beauty in the multitude of disks shining in the sun and reflecting off silver walls; an above ground wishing well!

Developed while at RCHS