CELEBRATION OF LIFE - 1972

Celebration of Life is a tall, slender column installed in a circular fountain at the center of an open-air atrium created by the four-sides of Pereira’s building. Resembling bubbles in a test tube, white-edged circles of various sizes rise up the column. The larger circles contain animal imagery in shades of red and yellow ochre against a black ground, including a pelican, baboon, and hippopotamus. The largest circles contain images of more than one animal, including a human couple with a baby, a deer and faun, and a pregnant rhinoceros whose baby is visible inside the womb.  Abstract swirls, and undulating lines coil around and behind the circles, suggesting movement in the bubbling “soup” of life.