A collaboration between Sunny Schneberger & Norma Yancey
Jury-selected as part of Waterloo Greenway’s 2019 Creek Show

Published in Texas Architect, January/February 2020, Waterloo Greenway Stages Sixth Annual Creek Show

ARTISTS’ STATEMENT:

We commonly interpret boundaries as a limit to movement or the edge of a space. Within the familiar form of a house, Light House challenged the visitor’s notion of what a wall is.

Materially, we broke down the “wall” by physically changing it into something that is as minimal as possible: curtains of light. The walls of this house are made of hanging electroluminescent (el) wires. Experientially, as you enter Light House, doorways diminish and then disappear. Visitors were drawn into the successive rooms by different colors and the obscured views of others beyond.

The only way forward is by moving through the walls. What if we saw other boundaries in our life in the same way? Obstacles that feel impassable can become something we can move through.

DRAWINGS & RENDERINGS BY SUNNY SCHNEBERGER
PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHASE DANIEL, DANIEL SOLANO, & ROGER HO