March 21 - April 25 * Visit anytime during daylight hours

SHRINES is a set of six art installations. Each one is unique, site-specific, interactive and entirely free. Visitors can learn more at the SHRINES guidebook, shrines.space.

From March 21 through April 25, 2021, six curious and wondrous Shrines will appear throughout the region's landscape, waiting to be discovered. Explorers, adventurous participants who choose to journey to one or many Shrines, will travel and enact a Ritual connecting them to the magic of a Shrine, its location, and other Explorers who have been there. Then, Explorers may uncover more by sharing their journey online and connecting with each other over the magic of SHRINES.

Designed by Deb Sivigny, Shrine To Life Cycles is dedicated to that which grows around and within us and makes up who we are, and that which dies to feed the undergrowth. It takes the form of an altar of wreaths inside a tree, a ritual to uncover and give name to the fibers of our being. It is for Explorers seeking cultivation, interconnection, and natural wonder.

“When trees grow together, nutrients and water can be optimally divided among them all so that each tree can grow into the best tree it can be. If you "help" individual trees by getting rid of their supposed competition, the remaining trees are bereft...some individuals photosynthesize like mad until sugar positively bubbles along their trunk. As a result, they are fit and grow better, but they aren't particularly long-lived. This is because a tree can be only as strong as the forest that surrounds it.”
—Peter Wohlleben, Hidden Life of Trees (2015)