The windows are tinted with the colors of the sunrise sky and markings of the Sun path at dawn. The mirror is the flowering mountain in the upper word of Aztec cosmology, the flower of life, Venus, Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, the lord of dawn, the morning star, our star. The installation is inspired by a sunrise experience as seen from the Gila in New Mexico, my homeplace. 

Part one of there our star lies visible is called gila emplacement. I went to the mountains in the Gila National Forest to observe the sunrise when Venus was at its brightest morning apparition. There I saw Venus reflecting the Sun from Earth in the center of four juniper trees each pointing to the cardinal directions.

Part two is the nonsite installation, representing the essence of gila emplacement’s sunrise observation, with the addition of a gold mirror that carries multi-layered metaphors in the tradition of mirrored objects from Mexico.