Different skies. The same moment.

Tethered

A light installation that lets us stand beneath another place’s sky and feel, for a moment, less alone.

Installation visualization · connecting cables omitted

The current installation

Sixteen places.
One shared moment.

Tethered brings sixteen places into one shared moment. A central Sky Portal and fifteen Tether Points (smaller lights with custom halos) translate live sky and weather conditions from locations around the world into changing light.

The installation invites visitors to pause, imagine the lives unfolding in those places, and feel the connection of inhabiting the same moment beneath different skies.

Spacing and arrangement adapt to the gallery, with the option to expand to thirty Tether Points.

Inside Tethered

Light becomes connection.

Explore the working installation and the details that give each light a place.

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4 works. Follow your curiosity.

Working Tethered installation with halo lights surrounding the central Sky Portal. — Working installation
The central Sky Portal and surrounding halo lights during setup and testing.

Springville, Iowa halo with raised lettering, illuminated in blue, with the Sky Portal behind it. — Springville, Iowa: a halo in detail
Each Tether Point is surrounded by a custom halo that introduces the place it represents: its name, population, time difference, and small details of everyday life. As the light responds to that place’s sky and weather, the halo gives visitors something human to connect with—a local tradition, a familiar routine, a glimpse of someone’s day. Together, the light and halo invite a simple realization: people are living there, right now, as we are here.

Tethered in motion: working installation

Weather translated to color
What would their sky feel like on your skin? Tethered takes live weather from another place and translates it through the imagined sensation of being there: sunshine warming your skin, mist wrapping around you, rain touching your face, wind moving past. Those sensations become an artistic language of color, brightness, and movement, expressed through each Tether Point. Weather becomes feeling. Feeling becomes light—an invitation to sense a little of the world someone else is standing in.

Where Tethered began

Far apart.
Unfolding alongside.

Áno Palaiokaryá, a mountain village in Greece, is my ancestral home. My great-grandfather left for America as the youngest of twelve brothers, and I still have a large extended family there.

I wanted to feel close to them. But I had never felt quite the closeness I experienced when I watched their sky in real time. We were far apart, yet their day was unfolding alongside mine.

That experience became the starting point for Tethered. Could sharing another place’s sky help us feel closer to the people beneath it? Could that feeling reach beyond our own families, toward people we have never met?

How the work unfolds ＋

The central Sky Portal follows Áno Palaiokaryá; fifteen surrounding halo lights follow other locations around the world. Each halo introduces its place through a name and details of everyday life.

Every five minutes, live weather data is translated into changing color, brightness, and movement. Morning haze, clouds, rain, wind, sunset, and night give each place its own expression.

Visitors are invited to move among the lights, find a place, and spend a moment with it—to imagine real people, in real places, living beneath real skies.

The core experience: one person pauses beneath the light of another place and remembers that other lives are unfolding there.

The evolution of Tethered