During recent years, my work has been site specific, and the last work is in an old cinema converted into a library in the old part of Prato in Italy.  In this hugh library, 29' high by 38' wide, by 70' long (10m x 12 x 22), I wanted to use the light from the skylight and the powerful electric lights to create a "transparent installation".  The material is a translucent polyester sewn and grometted to suspend from a wall-to-wall grid, made of cable.  I made one long diagonal of fabric to stretch close to the lights and a circular form stretched from one balcony to the next and extending underneath that balcony, toward the colorful books and clients.  I had painted the fabric in abstract transparent  colors, so that looking up at the ceiling one would see through the color to the lights, and from the balconies you see through the color to the books below.  From the ground floor, one can see through both layers of translucent cloth and color.  The spatial experience  is one of flying or swimming through clouds of colored light.  I prefer to write about this last work because it is the largest and seems to be the culmination of all my former work without repetition.  That has been my ambition: to try to relate to new spatial and cultural environments, making work that explores my self. Hopefully this openness will allow others to share these illuminations with me. -April, 2006