Fulton County Public Art Program
Atlanta, GA
The Fulton County Public Art Program commissions, acquires and maintains art for County facilities as well as providing cultural enrichment programming.
Message
Atlanta, the City in a Forest, is a place of deep roots and rich history. As a gathering place for knowledge, this library serves as its heart – its modern Tree of Science – drawing in its
community and branching out to others. Tree of Light is a poem of light expressing interconnected ideas of our appreciation of trees. A sculpture made of text inscribed mirror discs arranged like the leaves on a tree while referencing Marcel Breuer’s original quartet of skylights: four circles of light, poised in the corners of a square. The words engraved on the
discs are a product of the community, collected through a process of word play and arranged
by Atlanta based poet Valerie Respress.
* The Tree of Science, written in 1295 by mystic and philosopher Ramon Llull, was an early
version of an encyclopedia format aimed to inform the general public.
- Subject Matter: Abstract tree
- Created: 2020
- Inventory Number: PA.2020.1
- Current Location: Central Library - One Margaret Mitchell Square Atlanta, GA 30303 (google map)
- Collections: Central Library Artwork, Public Art Commissions