Documented artwork / outdoor solar-spectrum shade installation
Healing Shade
Credit as documented: Peter Erskine
Healing Shade is Peter Erskine’s group of five prism-equipped shade umbrellas in the Healing Garden at the Lucy Curci Cancer Center in Rancho Mirage. Sunlight passing through the prisms creates rainbow patterns in the planted outdoor setting. The artist identifies laser-cut prisms and sustainably harvested Brazilian ironwood supported by a galvanized-steel frame as the installation’s materials. His résumé gives Healing Shade its own 2003 entry and describes the structures as permanent. This garden work is physically separate from Healing Light in the center’s lobby: the documented shade-umbrella system is not the lobby’s heliostat-and-motorized-prism system, and the two titles are retained as separate artwork records.
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At a glance
- Year / version
- 2003
- Materials
- sunlight, laser-cut prisms, Brazilian ironwood, galvanized steel frame
- Documented setting
- outdoor
- 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 shade structures listed in artist résumé)
Healing Garden, Lucy Curci Cancer Center at Eisenhower Medical Center, Rancho Mirage, California
- Site
- Lucy Curci Cancer Center Healing Garden
- City
- Rancho Mirage
- State / region
- CA
- Country
- United States
- Historical siting
- permanent
- Setting
- outdoor
- Start year
- 2003
- Date meaning
- documented
Installation details checked 2026-10-17. Supporting source ↗.
Materials and construction
Five is the documented number of shade umbrellas. Their heights, spans and overall installation footprint are not stated in the retrieved project text.
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Sources
- erskinesolarart.net ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17
- erskinesolarart.net ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17