Ha-no-oo: Star Calendar
An outdoor 500 sq. ft., 1500-piece granite mosaic station sidewalk at the busiest RTD light rail station in downtown Denver, Colorado (16th Street and California). The Ha-no-oo: Star Calendar is an unprecedented ten-thousand year journey across the night skies of Colorado recorded in the constellations of twenty-three indigenous nations of this region. Light rail commuters can look down at the platform and up into the sky and recognize a metaphor for navigation and guidance by the stars. All the star names resulted from first-hand research and direct conversations with over fifty elders. “When language touches the earth,” writes N. Scott Momaday, “there is the holy, there is the sacred.” Twenty-one languages are present. Reviewed in Art Papers, Leonardo, and Public Art Review.
