Pyramid Hill Lights 2024

Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park is a wonderful feature in the greater-Cincinnati region. I’d heard about it for years and was invited to apply for their annual “Pyramid Hill Lights” annual holiday lights event. I conducted a site visit and was impressed with the scale of both the property and the sculptures present. The staff gave me a tour on a golf cart to show me the driving path for the light event, since visitors would experience the route from their cars. I’m always interested in forced perspective and manipulating that to some degree.

Ultimately, I landed on the large pavilion with its opposing triangular and [roughly] square openings. I used two versions of white yarn, one which fluoresced under UV and one which did not. The square opening had non-fluorescent white extending to the outer edge of the opposing triangle. Then fluorescent yarn extended from these same attachment points around the triangle down to a single point in the center of the beginning square.

The original plan was to do this in each of the 11 openings in the pavilion. However, scheduling conflicts with another project caused delay in pulling the trigger for this piece. The park was gracious enough to continue with a partial install for 2024 in only three openings. The late start also meant that the delivery of the light fixtures for the piece took longer than the start of the event. So, for the preview night, which is shown in these pictures and videos, the park lent me several smaller fixtures to use that had full RGB+UV options. There are three stacks of five fixtures shown here. They were later replaced by park staff after the correct fixtures arrived.