Iranian-American artist Afruz Amighi's work, Far From God was installed on the lawn in front of the Visitors Center. This work references Early Christian Architecture and spirituality.
We have been waiting for you to come. The preparations have been underway for some time. We have grown accustomed to the blare of horns, the bustle, the idea. From across the ocean your clear shadow stretches over our city, so far from god. And now your arrival is immanent.
Still I wonder how we will greet you. And what exactly it is that you will see. All the old idols have been undug. We have driven back time “before alphabets and numbers, the altar and the law.” The hum of work fills everything, along with our anticipation.
But after these years of great labor, will we find solace by your side? The paranoia, we sit with it and eat it in every grain. We carry on like this, making new idols. Even in our ungoverned hours, we are possessed by the spectre of you.
– Afruz Amighi