Last LookHow does your garden grow?On the ceiling of the Memorial Hall dome, an ever-changing light show. For two months, this summer into fall, the dome of the Schwarzman Center became Celestial Garden (Yale), a mesmerizing site-specific creation by artist Leo Villareal ’90. Members of the Yale and wider New Haven communities were invited (free of charge) to lie back on a cushy carpet, or a comfy chair, to watch an ever-changing garden of shapes and colors dancing on the domed ceiling; computer-generated tones offered what Villareal describes as a “link between visual and auditory.” Villareal had a more prosaic experience of the domed room as an undergraduate, in the days when it was the Yale Banner office. “I remember going to get my yearbook photo taken there.”
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