Media (LED light source)
When I visited Montalvo Arts Centre in Saratoga, California, I was bowled over by the house and gardens. The house was like a depiction of one of the mysterious islands in C.S. Lewis’s novel The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, in which he describes an intrepid group of mariners travelling to uncharted lands of the mythical world of Narnia. This notion was further reinforced when I observed a large stained-glass window depicting a 17th-century galleon, under full sail, on the main house stairway. The image could have been of the Dawn Treader itself, and this discovery confirmed that the theme of the exhibition had to be inspired by all things Narnia. My aim with the window was to light it in such a way that the beautiful galleon is highlighted as it journeys across Lewis’s mythical seas.
