A RESIDENCE IN TEXAS
Installed January 2020
LA CONCHA HOTEL LOBBY - SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICOCO
Installed December 2007
Front desk group of five cases
Entrance group of three cases 
Close up of silk pieces View from above
The designer/decorator, Jorge Rosello, and I had collaborated on several hotel projects, among them, the El San Juan Hotel, the Condado Plaza Hotel and the Pierre in San Juan, Puerto Rico and the Swisshotel in Chicago.
He saw a small silk hanging piece of mine, the ones I call 'Silent Chimes' in an exhibit I had in PR, and began thinking about how this kind of work could be used in a public space. After a long time, he came up with the idea of protecting the piece by encasing it in glass. He called me in New York, where I was living at the time and thus began the saga of the lobby artwork.
My installation for the lobby of La Concha Hotel, in San Juan, consisted of eight large glass cases, measuring 6' x 6' and about two feet deep. In each case were three acrylic rods where the strands of pieces of silk hung. They were in muted colors to form a pattern that resembled musical notes.
As an example of the work involved, more than 7000 pieces of silk were hand-dyed, cut, sewn, and hung from 24 acrylic rods. I had a great deal of help on this project, both from family, friends (from as far away as California) and also paid assistants. I appreciate everyone who collaborated with me in making this installation a reality.
The name of the piece is 'Amanece', a word which means 'dawn comes' in Spanish. It is the name of a much-loved song in the musical history of Puerto Rico. It speaks of the hills and vales of the countryside at dawn as farmers take their crops to town to sell. Their voices, which echo through the mountains, sing a chorus that is uniquely Puerto Rican...
ay-le-lo-lie, le-lo, le-lo-lie.
I was living in New York at the time and moved to MA three days before I had to go to PR to install it! The work took more than two years to complete, and six days to install, again, with help from my friends, my sister, and my grand-daughter, who took many fine photographs of
the art and the process.
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View of the bar with piece seen on far left
View of the front desk 
Hurray, it's done...my grand-daughter, Sara Martinez, and the artist known as Sandra Golbert