Phoenix Photographer Andrew Pielage Shoots the Wright Stuff for Taliesin West Visitors
, 2022-11-23 19:09:10,
Professional photographer Andrew Pielage of Phoenix is on a mission to chronicle all 430 of Wright’s remaining structures, and he’s up to 115. The “Sacred Spaces” exhibit, which opened at Taliesin West in October and is on display daily through January 29, 2023, captures 13 of those sites in 32 photos placed throughout the property.
Pielage, who has lived in Arizona since age 2, set foot at Taliesin West for the first time at age 34 in 2011, and was moved by how Wright married his structures with the natural environment. In fact, the title of the show refers not just to the churches, synagogues, and chapels that Wright designed. There’s also the architect’s philosophy that the Earth itself is a sacred space, and people should honor it with structures that complement its beauty, rather than desecrate it.
“The big takeaway for me was not the architecture, it was the blending of the two,” Pielage says. “I thought it was very cool that someone would respect nature so much they wouldn’t try to dominate it. He was trying to blur the line of where architecture and nature meet, and I had never seen that before.”
In fact, he recalls a famous Wright quote that says, “I believe in God, only I spell it…
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