Caitlind R. C. Brown

One week ago, we released this piece into the world for Northern Alps Art Festival! 💧✨🌲🫧 @northern_alps_art_festival "A Whisper in the Eye of the Storm" is an immersive installation created from 14,000 prescription lenses. Towering above the viewer like a shimmering forcefield or suspended rain storm, the piece draws from the powerful relationship between the surrounding region and water – as a source of sustenance, electricity, leisure, and life. 💧 We designed this work in response to Omachi, a shrinking town in the Japanese Alps known for hydroelectric dams, beautiful mountainside lakes, and a rapidly shrinking population. "A Whisper in the Eyes of the Storm" invites visitors to see what they'd normally overlook. The work is installed in a cedar forest behind Nishina Shrine along the shore of Lake Kizaki. The work invites visitors to look at the landscape (and each other) with fresh eyes, seeing differently and peering deeply into the ancient and evolving landscape. See the work from now until November 4, 2024. 💧✨🌲🫧 Thank you to Northern Alps Art Festival for commissioning this work, Fram Kitagawa for inviting us, @soseisato and Takafumi Shimooka for coordinating our work, @daigohonma and @kunitoaoki for installation support, and over 30 volunteers for helping build the installation! 🫧 Thanks to the Canadian Lions Eyeglass Recycling Centre #CLERC for supplying the lenses. More photos, video, and a longer list of credits to come!! . . . . . . . . . . #awhisperintheeyeofthestorm #🫧 #Art #waysofseeing #lightart #lightsculpture #💧✨️🫧🌲 #optics #opticalart #artinstallation #immersiveart #sculpture #publicart #canadianart #yycart #omachi #northernalpsartfestival #artfront #artfronttokyo #eyeglasslenses #lenses

In the 7 years since we built CLOUD for #NuitBlancheCalgary, we've had the profound pleasure of sharing the sculpture with people around the world - from Garage Museum in Moscow, to the futuristic shores of Marina Bay in Singapore, to the banks beneath Charles Bridge in Prague, to the @nac.cna in Ottawa beneath the watchful eye of Michael Bublé... and beyond! When we built this artwork (with much help from #palgary) we signed ourselves up for an unintentional tidal wave, c/o of a little #lightbulbcloud that drags us around by its rain drops. For the most part, it's been a dream, full of new friends and unbelievable landscapes. But there's also a fair amount of collateral damage. Whether it's near misses with heavy machinery, logistical nightmares, or rampant copyright infringements (often by people who should, and DO, know better), CLOUD has left little scars on our bodies and psyches. We discovered a new copy of the artwork today, in a commercial metropolitan area of a major city. As we prepare for the headache of legal gymnastics, we're taking a minute to feel some gratitude for all the incredibly lucky moments we've had with this shiny beast. The amazing experiences outweigh the cruddy ones, and lots of friends have our backs 💖 Somehow, our puffy little #incandescentcloud still holds magic. Now, it's time to borrow some of her lightning! ⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡ . . . 1) CLOUD at Nuit Blanche Calgary. Photo by Mitch Kern. 2) Garage Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow. 3) Jerusalem Light Festival. 4) iLight Marina Bay in Singapore. 5) iLight Marina Bay in Singapore. 6) Signal Festival in Prague. An interspecies audience of swans! 7) Strand Ephemera in Townsville, Australia. #clouddownunder 8) Glow Forum of Light Art + Architecture in Eindhoven, Netherlands. 9) Nuit Blanche Calgary. Photo by Doug Wong. . . . #lightart #therealincandescentcloud #sculpture #canadianart #art #lightbulbs #yycart #yycartists #🌧 #handsoffourraincloud

Our first official 'permanent' public artwork, CARBON COPY, installed in the @yegbrewerydistrict just yesterday! . . . Artists: Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett Fabricators: F&D Scene Changes @fdscenechanges Public Art Consultants: Zebra Public Art @zebrapublicartmgmt Commissioned by First Capital Realty & Sun Life Assurance . . . #carboncopyYEG #publicart #carart #glitch #fcrpublicart

As we begin working on a new piece in this series for @gnamamidakisfoundation , we're taking a moment to reflect backwards. ✨️🫧 "A Whisper in the Eye of the Storm," 2024 Omachi, Japan Created with @northern_alps_art_festival . Eternal gratitude to Shimooka-san, Sosei-san, our amazing team, and @art_front 🫧✨️ #light #art #optics #artfront #awhisperintheeyeofthestorm

"ROOT MASS," 2024 adornments for the death cycle of a fallen tree at Empire of Dirt @empireofdirtresidency Creston, BC

"Conversations with Time," Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett, 2025 @setouchi_triennale Sanuki-Tsuda, Japan (Bonus points if you caught who's in the baby carriage on the first watch... 🔍🤣) #art #lightart #installationart #setouchitriennale #conversationswithtime

That one time a tiny frog photo-bombed our art documentation 🤣🐸💗 "A Whisper in the Eye of the Storm," 2024 @northern_alps_art_festival . . . . . . . . . . . #art #frog #frogsloveart #artistslovefrogs #🐸❤️

Luminous Being is a kinetic light sculpture celebrating the life of Paula Fayerman, a long-time radio programmer of @cjswnoise on CJSW 90.9 fm (our local community radio station). Five panels of laser-engraved acrylic illuminate one by one to create an analog animation of white curtains blowing gently in the breeze. Most of the time the artwork will be sleeping, but it will awaken near the end of each radio-hour, slowly illuminating to mark the transition between one show and the next. The icon of a window creates the architecture of connection, a threshold you can see through but not enter, as an analogy for passing into the space beyond life as we know it. “Luminous Being” is a verb, speaking to the presence in absence, and all the invisible forces that surround us always, felt but unseen… like wind, or radio, or Paula.  🤍 CJSW invited me to create this artwork in celebration of Paula, and as a poetic acknowledgement of the significant donation she left to the station posthumously. Paula was my friend and a mentor of sorts. She on-air trained me almost 20 years ago, taught me the joys of community radio, and saw through the thin veil into my soul. She was a radiant woman, full of magic and good humour, and I miss her very much. It’s been a pleasure to think about her while developing this site-specific artwork over the last year.   Thanks to Adam Kamis @bumblebee_zombie for his patience and guidance, Doug Harkness for sharing some of Paula’s final thoughts and words, Kerry Clark for late night conversations about our mutual friend, Dennis Koski @mancavemachining for his help with prototyping and fabrication, the Pizza Critz group for their insights and ideas, Steve for sharing the booth for documentation, and CJSW for seeing the value in commissioning an original artwork. Thanks to all the programmers who will share space with Luminous Being over the years to come. I hope it guides you gently from one hour to the next. ✨️ Luminous Being was created in collaboration with @waynepgarrett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #luminousbeing #art #cjsw #animationmachine #lightart

Luminous Being a new work commissioned for CJSW in Celebration of Paula Fayerman 🤍

A side-quest into stained glass at @workshopstudiosyyc One of my classmates asked me why I decided to make a chair. I guess I've been thinking about chairs a lot lately? All that they represent, especially when combined with art. A place to sit, wait, reflect. Take a moment. Pause. Human-scale design. An ordinary gesture of consideration for the viewer. But also, one of the only visual hallucinations I remember having was when my parents were away on their annual silent retreat. I was little, maybe 7 or 8, and I was curled into my folks' big bed with my Grama. I don't know why. Maybe I was sick? I remember seeing this floating chair, so small, and absolutely bejeweled, floating in mid-air. Twirling and glittering. It felt so real. I remember dreaming that I'd pinched myself, but it was still there. 💎 Thanks to Adeline for all the guidance.

📣 ART PRIZE 2026 We are delighted to announce the winners of the Art Prize 2026: Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett from Canada, for their proposal Chronotopia. Chronotopia is a large-scale, site-specific installation drawing from relationships between Crete and water, light, space, and time. The piece is composed of layers of optical lenses, wrapped in two arcing sails of light. Chronotopia acts as a reflection on visual culture, combining different ways of seeing into a shared space. This coexistence creates multiple perspectives, moving beyond a single reality toward a layered, collective experience. Based in Calgary/Mohkinstsis, in Western Canada, Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett have collaborated since 2010 on large-scale light art installations, public and environmental projects, and participatory works. Their works are exhibited extensively at museums, festivals, and galleries, nationally and internationally. Their artistic practice focuses on the relationship between body, space, and time, with the landscape always functioning as an active interlocutor, co-shaping the conception, scale, and experience of each work. The work will be presented in June @minospalaceresort @incandescentcloud @waynepgarrett

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