One minute of the sunlight, clouds, and a crystal prism sculpture by Rockne Krebs, 2025.

“The bellhop calls them sunflowers, the desk clerk calls them rainbows…Krebs has made two works in this airy, light-filled, 14 story space, a sunlight piece for daytime and a laser piece for night….but “Atlantis,” his sun piece, has no edges. Its geometry is temporal. It cannot be seen at once or in one day or month. It is not the same in summer as it is in fall….Krebs spent three years figuring out the year-round patterns they paint. Some of his prisms catch the sun only two hours every year. Certain walls are painted at certain times of day. And then there is the eye….It is a portrait of the eye of the artist’s daughter.” Paul Richard, The Spokesman Review, Spokane, Washington, December 12, 1976, Sunlight, laser art featured in spectacular Atlanta hotel.

“Collaborations with the sun are a very humbling experience. It doesn’t allow one to turn it on like a light and appear when desired. So what one establishes is a kind of expectancy and you have to be a little patient with the work of art because it may not always be present when you’re ready to see it.” Rockne Krebs, 1983, CBS National News interview.