Related Projects

Temporary Installations
  • Man from City Hall

    • Boston City Hall becomes a giant character for First Night celebrations

  • River Runes

    • A trail of installations focused on the river at Art Park

  • Submerge

    • Video collaboration by Mags Harries & Catherine Siller for Art on the Marquee at the Boston Convention Center

  • River

    • An illusionary river of water, light, and shadow

  • Communal Well

    • A participatory installation in Hawaii about drinking water

  • Three Gardens

    • Domestic scale gardens make intimate spaces on the grounds of the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA

  • Playback

    • Reclaiming a derelict tennis court with sound and nylon straps

  • One Legged Table

    • Bringing communities to the table to discuss global warming

  • Border Garden

    • An installation at the La Jolla Museum of Art, CA about the Mexican-US Border, water, land, and immigration

  • Demon Trap

    • An installation where vacuum cleaners become Sin Eaters with poet Peter Finch in Wales,UK

  • Our Charles River

    • Exploring the connections between people, water and rivers

  • Solstice Iceland

    • An installation exploring the path of the Sun on the edge of the Arctic Circle

  • The Gallo Wars of Civitella

    • Video work by Mags Harries and Lajos Héder

  • Reclamation Art

    • Reclamation Artists Boston

Massachusetts
  • Man from City Hall

    • Boston City Hall becomes a giant character for First Night celebrations

  • Portrait Chairs

    • Seats of honor for readers in Norfolk, MA

  • In the Dense Words

    • A book environment for a book distribution company

  • Glove Cycle

    • Gloves go through a life cycle while leading passengers down into a Cambridge subway station

  • Asaroton, 1976

    • Bronze garbage embedded in a Boston crosswalk commemorates a produce market.

  • Ben’s Circular Tower

    • A place for storytelling and imagination on top of Boston’s Mission Hill

  • Gateway

    • An oversized table creates a fanciful gateway in a Cambridge middle school

  • Drawn Water

    • A permanent piece at the Cambridge, MA Water Treatment Plant about where water comes from and where it goes

  • 300 Summer Street

    • An artist-owned live/work studio building in Boston’s Fort Point area with recycled steel plate sculpture for the public spaces

  • The Bay Circuit Trail

    • A community project traversing the “Emerald Necklace” surrounding Boston

  • Submerge

    • Video collaboration by Mags Harries & Catherine Siller for Art on the Marquee at the Boston Convention Center

  • Winding Down the Charles

    • A performance piece in Cambridge, MA about the length of the river and time

  • Speed of Light

    • Mags’ students illuminate the future route of transit connecting eight communities around Boston

  • River

    • An illusionary river of water, light, and shadow

  • Three Gardens

    • Domestic scale gardens make intimate spaces on the grounds of the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA

  • One Legged Table

    • Bringing communities to the table to discuss global warming

  • Our Charles River

    • Exploring the connections between people, water and rivers

  • Reclamation Art

    • Reclamation Artists Boston

Light, Sound & Peformance
  • Man from City Hall

    • Boston City Hall becomes a giant character for First Night celebrations

  • LightPlay

    • A project using refracted light and other day/night lighting effects for a new mixed-use building

  • Terpsichore for Kansas City

    • Turning a 1000 car parking garage into a musical instrument in Kansas City, MO

  • SunFlowers, An Electric Garden

    • Sculptural solar collectors provide shade and lighting for a bike path

  • Passage

    • A multifaceted project for the new South Mountain Community Library, connecting people through words to the landscape of South Phoenix

  • Pillars of Thought

    • Transforming architectural elements into guardians of thought in the Scottsdale Public Library

  • The Bronx River Golden Ball

    • An annual event in the Bronx and Westchester Co., NY, where the ball focuses diverse communities on the river

  • Light Gate

    • Glass laminated with prismatic film captures the sunset for the Centennial Art Project for Manhattan Beach, CA

  • Submerge

    • Video collaboration by Mags Harries & Catherine Siller for Art on the Marquee at the Boston Convention Center

  • Playback

    • Reclaiming a derelict tennis court with sound and nylon straps

  • One Legged Table

    • Bringing communities to the table to discuss global warming

  • The Gallo Wars of Civitella

    • Video work by Mags Harries and Lajos Héder

Arizona
  • Passage

    • A multifaceted project for the new South Mountain Community Library, connecting people through words to the landscape of South Phoenix

  • WaterWorks at Arizona Falls

    • A permanent installation at an old hydropower station

  • The Zanjero’s Line

    • A recreational path along 4 miles of the Highline Canal in South Phoenix, AZ

  • Arbors & Ghost Trees

    • Bus stops and shaded arbors as markers of transformation and memory along a major road in South Phoenix, AZ

  • Pillars of Thought

    • Transforming architectural elements into guardians of thought in the Scottsdale Public Library

  • Wall Cycle to Ocotillo

    • A trail of 20 sculpture sites mitigating between 5 miles of highway and neighborhoods in Phoenix

Lucid Moment

  • Location: Regis College Gallery, MA (2000)/ Scottsdale Museum of Modern Art, AZ (2002)
  • Fabrication: Scott Tiede
  • Materials: Light, glass, cable, c-clamps, plastic funnels, mineral oil, salt
  • Artist: Mags Harries
  • Photo Credits: Kathy Chapman
  • Video Credits: Bridget Murphy

Pulsing Light

Illustration of lamp and pulsing rings of light

In this light sculpture, thirteen lamps are suspended from the ceiling at different heights.  Light projects through trays of mineral oil onto salt circles on the floor below.  The circles on the floor create controlled pathways for the viewer to move through the space.  Electronically generated pulses in the mineral oil create rippling rings of light on the floor, each moving at a different rate.  Some lamps are grouped together to become clusters of movement.  The pulsing circles of light create a calm and meditative space.

Clarity and Reflection

Christine Temin, art critic for The Boston Globe, described the piece:
“Clarity, freshness and freedom from cliché characterize Lucid Moment.  So many installations are housed in darkened rooms, both for spooky effects and because darkness can hide technical sins.  Lucid Moment is at daylight level.  It’s like a New England Colonial church versus a Romanesque one.  It suggests reason rather than the irrational.
Lucid Moment can make your thoughts ripple outward just as those reflections do.”

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