Documented artwork / solar-spectrum lobby light installation
Healing Light
Credit as documented: Peter Erskine
Healing Light is Peter Erskine’s solar-spectrum installation for the lobby of the Lucy Curci Cancer Center at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage. The artist’s résumé lists it separately as a permanent work from 2003. A heliostat positioned 107 feet north of the lobby directs sunlight toward motorized prisms mounted at roof level. Those prisms send two large rainbow beams into the interior, where their shape, color and position vary through the day and year. The work’s physical account therefore includes both exterior optical equipment and an interior light experience. It is distinct from Healing Shade, Erskine’s separately named set of prism-equipped garden umbrellas at the same facility.
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At a glance
- Year / version
- 2003
- Materials
- sunlight, heliostat solar-tracking mirror, motorized prisms
- Documented setting
- indoor
- Dimensions
- Not documented
- Dimensions apply to
- Not documented
- Availability
- Unconfirmed
Places & versions
Installation history
Historical presentations. A past installation does not establish the current location or suitability for a new site.
2003 (permanent installation listed in artist résumé)
Lobby, Lucy Curci Cancer Center at Eisenhower Medical Center, Rancho Mirage, California
- Site
- Lucy Curci Cancer Center lobby
- City
- Rancho Mirage
- State / region
- CA
- Country
- United States
- Historical siting
- permanent
- Setting
- indoor
- Start year
- 2003
- Date meaning
- documented
Installation details checked 2026-10-17. Supporting source ↗.
Materials and construction
The 107-foot figure describes the heliostat’s separation from the lobby, not the dimensions of the artwork or projected beams.
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Sources
- erskinesolarart.net ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17
- erskinesolarart.net ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17