The combination of these humanizing details and the visual vortex created by the architectural structure, the camera angle, and the
dark,
cloud - filled sky, though somewhat unsettling, ultimately
evoke the awe - inspiring possibilities of a community - created, secular cathedral.
Dripping with glow - in - the -
dark polyurethane and mercurial poured steel, HILLS AND
CLOUDS (2014, pictured above)
evokes beached mats of algae, or bald cypress treetops swathed in Spanish moss in the artist's native Louisiana.