Light Walk
Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Oncology —
Year of Completion: 2001
The air is luminous in these subterranean gardens.
A timeless dawn is calling you.
Located in the patient area of Oncology, this
piece was designed to create a healing and reflective
environment. The viewer is invited on a dream
quest into this exotic underworld – a spiritual
path with reflecting pools, sacred sculptures,
and bridges that lead up into the tops of trees.
Before the moss wall stands a young woman
of bronze in sublime rapture. On the left,
as homage to Rodin’s sculpture of Victor
Hugo, is a prophet of white marble. Perhaps
during this great man’s meditation he might
say to us: "This is only an infinitesimal
piece of this path --for we can not see
the beginning or the end of it. Yet, in
this moment – if fully embraced – it is
infinite.
