The Downtown Raleigh Alliance and VAE Raleigh chose over a dozen local artists to take over downtown storefronts to create a city-wide light-inspired outdoor gallery crawl.
The installation is titled Rainglow. Located at 401 Fayetteville St. Raleigh, NC. December 2020 - January 2021
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton
This installation explores accepting life’s challenges, dependent upon the assumption that something better awaits us on the other side. It’s the anticipation of something unattainable - the idea of a perfect explosion of happiness. A glowing rainbow explosion. This pandemic will not last forever. We can emerge from this storm to see the rainbow, stepping over the broken parts of us left along the way. It represents the pursuit of an impossible ideal but one we must cling to in order to keep going.
The materials used in Rainglow are hand-dyed indigo cotton fabric using shibori techniques. LED lights, paper lanterns, recycled poly-fill.
Installation press: Indyweek & ABC11 News
