THE FUTURE STANDS STILL BUT WE MOVE IN INFINITE SPACE

1320 Building (former Oregonian printshop), Portland, Oregon
2016
Mirror, etched mirror, LED light panels
6’ x 200’ x 2’

Commissioned by Regional Arts & Culture Council and Urban Renaissance Group, for 1320 Southwest Broadway in Portland, The Future Stands Still but We Move in Infinite Space activates one full block — the popular 6th Avenue bus mall — in Downtown Portland. The street features 36 etched and illuminated mirror boxes permanently integrated into the architecture. In collaboration with Allied Works, etched imagery begins with a view of the building from above. Then imagery reflects increasing distance and culminates with the Milky Way Galaxy. Titled after a line from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, this installation slows viewers down to help them look up. It encourages individual placemaking within shared experiences of timelessness.