SACRED SPACES Exhibition Travels To Taliesin
OPENING MAY 1, 2022
SACRED SPACES Exhibit, Taliesin, Exterior, Frank Lloyd Wright. Photographed by Andrew Pielage. [Buy/Shop Prints]
When you think of the words “Sacred Space” your mind probably goes to a religious building, maybe a church, temple or synagogue?
You may think of a Frank Lloyd Wright design like Unity Temple in Oak Park, the Unitarian Meeting house in Wisconsin or maybe the Beth Sholom Synagogue outside Philadelphia, you wouldn’t be wrong there and I would agree with you…kinda. I do think Wright and I believe in another form of Sacred, a non-religious type of sacred.
SACRED SPACES Exhibit, Unitarian Meeting House, Looking Up, Frank Lloyd Wright. Photographed by Andrew Pielage. [Buy/Shop Prints]
SACRED SPACES Exhibit, Taliesin, Romeo + Juliet Windmill, Frank Lloyd Wright. Photographed by Andrew Pielage. [Buy/Shop Prints]
Wright and I, also include nature as a Sacred Space. I was camping with my family before I could walk and have been ever since. In fact, I just got back from a two-day camping trip with my 74 year old mom visiting a special place in the desert where we spread my dad’s ashes. The roots of landscapes and nature run deep in my family and myself and we consider it sacred…and so did Wright.
“God still persists as the great spirit informing all,”
said Wright in a talk to that Taliesin Fellowship just prior to his death in 1959.
“But all we would see of it and all we could possibly see of it, framed as we’re framed, is Nature”
To have both religious and non-religious designs in my Sacred Spaces photography exhibit was very important to me and an idea that curator Sam Lubell and I discussed at great length as we were putting the exhibit together. Both the 30+ images and the hosting sites themselves needed to represent both this religious and non-religious idea of sacred.
The exhibit is now transitioning from the “religious site” of Beth Sholom Synagogue, were it opened in September 2021 to Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin where it will open May 1st, 2022.
I was sad to see it go from Beth Sholom but happy to see it have new life in not only the state Wright was born in but in the very landscapes he considered Sacred.
The Sacred Spaces Exhibit will also be hosted by Taliesin West in the winter/spring of 2023 and Fallingwater spring/summer of 2023. I hope to see you there.