SACRED SPACE EXHIBIT

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF EARTH AND MAN

DALLAS, TEXAS | 4,000 SQFT | COMPLETED IN 2000

IES MERIT AWARD 2002

The traveling Sacred Space exhibit, an exhibition of 200 color photographs of sacred buildings and landscapes in Mesoamerica, opened with this installation in the historic Hall of State at the 2000 Texas State Fair. The installation design was conceived during a visit to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City, one of thee sites documented in the exhibit. This Cathedral is engulfed by a maze of scaffolding that soars through the space, bringing the secular into close contact with the sacred. The installation seeks to bring spiritual and civil sensibilities together by using the vocabulary found in the Metropolitan Cathedral. The exhibit and the spiritual places in the images echo the experience of being in these sacred spaces today.