For winter solstice I traveled up through
looking like Arizona, Sedona, this time of year.
The light changes from point to point.
We arrived at Eric Lloyd Wright’s Wright Organic Resource Center
Others already stood on the hilltop, looking out over the Pacific Ocean. To join them we walked past
Frank Lloyd Wright often included a water element, even in his urban projects, and in his Southern California work.
This house, designed by Eric Lloyd Wright, grows organically out of the hill, the side of the hill, the brow, like Taliesin (“Shining Brow”) where Eric had lived and worked with “grandfather” for many years.
The house for now is far from finished. Some of its forms recall a Japanese Shinto gate; and, as in Shinto, this architecture considers nature sacred and imbued with spirits. To be here is to feel those spirits. Shinto celebrates the sense and essence of a particular place, as does this house. Its concrete looks the color of the hill on which it stands, particularly when bathed with
Underneath the terrace, in the space below, burns the hearth of the home. Fire, to go with the water element, and earth, and air. The space with the hearth faces the sun
Back up on top of the terrace
The prow of the house
lines up with the sun on this day of the solstice. Those metal poles will be replaced by solar panels when the house is finished.
We watched an especially surreal, sublime Los Angeles sunset, enhanced by this quiet, dark, natural spot.
I looked to the right and saw Eric (in the center, wearing a hat) with a circle of friends
I turned around to watch
We then gathered for warmth and food, back where the koi swam silently. There we were, beneath two aged and spreading, sheltering trees; their branches wrapped loosely in Italian (Chinese?) little white lights. These illuminated our faces, but didn’t keep us warm. We wrapped our hands around warm mugs of herbal tea, shared dinner and merrymaking.
Happy Holidays to you!
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