About
Internationally recognized, Solar Spectrum Artist, Peter Erskine, is creating and donating permanent, site-specific, rainbow light installations for 100 Public Libraries scattered throughout Oregon. (Check the map see which ones.) Erskine has visited and evaluated 94 libraries. Seven are completed, and twenty more are in design.
“My art occurs at the juncture between Nature and Culture.”
As the earth spins, circling the sun, huge living rainbows slowly glide through an Oregon Public Library, gradually changing shape and color with the seasons. The entire space becomes a giant prismatic sundial linking us to the cosmos.
The library quietly resonates with the serene beauty of celestial light. We feel whole, serene,
peaceful.
Generated from ever-changing Oregon Sunlight, the art continually refreshes itself. It will never
grow dull. It is unique in the libraries of the world.
“The rainbow is a very deep memory for humans. It has been coded into our genetic material over millions of years. Seeing a rainbow restores our connection to Nature – it restores our physical and psychic functions.”
Jonas Salk, M.D., Inventor of the first Polio Vaccine – in a conversation with Peter Erskine
“Someone like Peter Erskine (who combines a sense of art with an understanding of how the world works) must have been responsible for Stonehenge.”
Thomas E. Lovejoy, “the Godfather of Biodiversity”
“I walk into a church in my living room every afternoon and think of you, and say ‘thank you Peter.’ Love and gratitude for sharing the Beauty.”
Olivia-Newton John, Singer and Song writer
Bringing Mother Nature into a Building
Can you remember a time you saw a living rainbow glowing in the sky? How that first glimpse took your breath away, and brought a burst of joy? Now imagine stepping inside a twenty foot high solar rainbow beam you can actually reach out and touch – with colors so rich, no photo or video could ever hope to capture them.
Erskine Solar Spectrum Environmental Art
As the Earth spins, circling the Sun, huge living rainbows slowly glide through an Erskine natural light installation, gradually changing shape and color with the seasons. The entire space becomes a giant prismatic sundial linking us to the cosmos. The architecture is experienced as a grand unified gesture, quietly resonating with the serene beauty of celestial light. We feel whole, serene, peaceful.