Embroidery loves . . .
LET THERE BE LIGHT
Above: Artist Anne Lindberg installs What color is divine light?
PHOTO BY DEREK PORTER
PHOTO BY CARA TAYLOR/THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
■ This immersive installation in Washington, USA, by contemporary multimedia artist Anne Lindberg, explores the question,‘What color is divine light?’ Set against lavender walls, the installation contains thousands of fine chromatic threads in complementary yellow and blue colours, creating a cloud of colour that evokes light itself. Lindberg invites visitors to reflect: if divinity could be experienced as a physical presence, what might it look like? Sound like? Feel like? What colour is divine light? Across many religions, light is used as a symbol of divine presence on Earth. Inspired by a 1971 essay by art historian Patrik Reuterswärd,What color is divine light?, Lindberg has created this installation as both her response to an unanswerable question and an echoing prompt to visitors. Scientists have determined that between complementary colours exist colours the eye and brain cannot perceive, called ‘impossible’ colours.‘It’s the unnamed space between,’ states Lindberg. ‘Although our eyes can’t perceive the colours, we feel them, sense them.The divine, likewise, is unnamable, untouchable, intangible.’