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With an
increased emphasis on creating integrated healthcare environments that
support the total patient, attention is now being directed toward shifting
the energy of spaces and transforming them into more comforting, soothing
and relaxing environments. Vara Kamin’s Impressions of Light™ backlit lenses
are specifically designed to provide both a visual and visceral experience
for the viewer. They offer a unique source for facility managers, designers
and architects who want to create environments that are not only more
familiar and comfortable, but are energetically balanced to support their
patients’ physical, emotional and spiritual needs.
For individuals in assisted living
or extended care facilities, lighting as an environmental enhancement can
help to de-institutionalize both living spaces and common areas, as well as
establish a sense of placement in a world that is very far removed from
their once familiar surroundings. For patients who become bed-ridden,
an object of reflection and distraction, as opposed to a static image of
poster art, can actively engage their imagination and potentially stimulate
their bodies’ relaxation response. As an example, for a person who has spent
much of their life enjoying their garden, Priscilla’s Garden offers the
opportunity to revisit the vibrant color and life of a full blooming garden
in the height of the summer. These visual reminders evoke memories of
the sights, sounds and even smells of one’s own history and offer an inward
journey of peace and imagination away from what, for many, has become a
routine existence. Light and shadow, color and movement – all brought
vividly back to life in the mind’s eye in a way that is unique and personal
to everyone who experiences it.
When placed in areas such as physical therapy, exam and
procedural rooms, chapels and meditative spaces, or high-stress areas, these
lenses soften the impact of institutional lighting and create areas of
intentional mood by adding specific color palettes. Color and light
have been a part of our lives since the beginning of time. Color
transforms our environment, potentially increases our productivity and has
the capacity to reduce our levels of stress. Color can sedate, it can
excite or calm, feel hot or cold, bring pleasure, generate feelings of
passion or uplift us spiritually. Our language is full of expressions
that use color to represent not only sensory data but also emotional
experiences. We might call a life without emotion “colorless,” yet
when standing before an inspired work of art we can encounter some our
deepest spiritual moments. Visual artist and author, Vara Kamin, who is also a former public health nurse, creates large-scale impressionistic abstracts with a 3-dimensional component. Her intention in creating these works of art is to provide expressions of color that inspire comfort for the viewer and enhance the environments in which they are placed. Although her paintings are non-representational, they capture the essence of nature and offer limitless interpretations based on the imagination and life experiences of each person who views them. Responding to numerous requests to make her work more broadly available, Kamin has chosen ten paintings from the collected works that are placed in a wide variety of settings throughout the country. The images from these original works of art are digitally replicated using warranted 3M Graphics materials with a class-A fire rating.
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