Ripple Effect
Dana designed the naturalistic privacy screen entitled “Ripple Effect” to beautify and protect two newly established villages and honor the impact each participant makes to GMS and the larger community.
This is a work of public art which performs a tangible public service.
—Sebastian Zinn, Oregon ArtsWatch
Art for both sides
The collaged photographic imagery with scenes of soothing water and cloudscapes performs a service of beautifying and uplifting the space both inside and outside the village, while retaining villagers’ rights to their own private space. In designing the privacy screen, Dana considered how the challenge of houselessness is not an isolated one, and people experiencing houselessness and poverty should not be categorized as a community separate from those who are housed.
In her words, “At its best, we collectively experience the transformative power of artmaking, and that empowers me to continue.”
