ARTIST STATEMENT (English / Espanol)

Hudson River Community Health Center, The Peekskill Bolstered by the community's embracement of the first phases of Substancial, the opportunity emerged to explore the initial concept and intentions of the piece in further detail. Substancial Phase 4 reflects the origins of the Hudson River HealthCare Center as a grassroots project and ties into the later emergence of the concept of the health center as a network of service providers, which originates from the flagship Health Center in Peekskill, New York. Since the Health Center's inception in 1975, 14 additional facilities have been created in different counties throughout New York State. Substancial Phase 4 incorporates this idea of the relationship between potentiality and movement with itŐs dense accumulation of lanterns which convey a sense of potential energy and expanding mass in an explosion of light and form along the length of the façade of the health center.