The inaugural collaboration for Tribal Truth is a controlled lighting installation on an open field that features a 60’ steel tower and celebrates the spirit of a global village.
The work evolved from Richmond Burton’s and James Ferrari’s ideas about utilizing an overgrown and partially destroyed steel tower located on Ferrari’s property in Bellport, New York. The tower had been previously constructed in a grid form, and Burton’s primary compositional tool is often a grid. In Lovelite, the artists expanded the grid element into the notion of meridian lines on a map, and suddenly the meridian lines extend off the tower and into the 130 by the 70-foot field at the tower’s base. The artists used colored rope lights and controlled theatrical lighting to realize vibrant intersecting lines that surround and consume the artists and viewer.
From close-up, the viewer is interactively involved with the movement of the majestic light-layered grid. From a further perspective, the individual is invited to assume a macrocosmic perspective as they can view the component parts working together in a delicate, interrelated balance between the planet and our influence over it, as portrayed by ever-moving lines of colored lights in concert with original music James Ferrari recorded which is sung by orphans and vulnerable children when traveling in the Ugandan Rain forest while trekking mountain gorillas in the Bwindi Forest in 2004
Check out the LoveLite trailer featured above.
