Like A Multivitamin is a chromatic meandering.

Underpinned by notions of hospitality and delight, this installation located in the third-floor garden courtyard at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center uses a combination of color, natural light, and architecture to transform an existing outdoor space as a catalyst for connection and joy. I chose these colors for their healing properties and their connection to the surrounding landscape. Together, the palette can be considered a multivitamin: when encountered daily, it might make one feel better over time.

There is no beginning or end. Colors play off of one another; constantly in flux as the sun rises and sets, causing them to glow in the light and deepen in the shadows. It is important to me that the installation can be experienced both indoors and outdoors, from various vantage points. Gaze down from above, look up from below, walk around it, sit in its glow, meditate on a single color at a time, or take them all in at once.

Several colors in the installation are accompanied by an original haiku. Much like color, they offer a sense of a specific moment in time: a special event, a change of season, something that encourages one to pause, take notice and come to attention. This courtyard, once grey and now imbued with color, elicits emotions within us, helping to lift burden and stress, whether visiting once or returning daily.

Over one hundred languages are spoken by staff at Valley Medical Center. Experiences of the installation are bound to vary, but color is a universal language that welcomes multiple interpretations. I wanted to offer relief through a vibrant dose of color in a space where people are working, healing, and grieving: a multivitamin for their senses.