ART in the PARK:
The Space Within
Woodruff Park – Atlanta, GA
October 11, 2025 – December 31, 2025
c/o Jeffrey Moustache
A public art activation featuring contemplative installations by artists Lisa Li, Dana Haugaard, Ellex Swavoni, and the grief house designed to inspire reflection and inner peace.
Featured Artwork
Nice Bumping Into You Here (2025)
Resin, Wood, Metal
By Lisa Li
A temporary sound installation composed of suspended resin tubes within a custom wooden frame. Shifting sunlight passes through the resin, creating luminous patterns that change throughout the day. Activated by touch and gentle movement, the work produces resonant tones that encourage collective interaction and shared experience.
Sometimes you’ve got to pull yourself apart in a place to see yourself all together (2025)
Ink, jet print on mirrored acrylic, wood
By Dana Haugaard
These concave mirrored forms, arranged within the area of an equilateral triangle reflecting outward and revealing a heightened and abstracted view of the environment and the viewer. I am exploring the fluctuating relationships between our self-awareness, place, and time, and how our perception of these elements shifts moment to moment based on how we encounter the idea of ourselves. By distilling and manipulating ones refection, I hope to provoke shifts of perception in the viewer that induce self-reflection and a heightened sense of self-awareness, within and without.
Event Horizon 2.0 (2025)
Wood Fiberglass, Epoxy, Automotive Paint
By Ellex Swavoni
Event Horizon 2.0 is an ambient sound amplifier. The sleek geometry and surfaces capture the ambience and vibrations that drift around, magnifying them into an intimate soundscape drawing you deeper into the moment.
Atlanta Wind Phone (2025)
Telephone, Wood, Oil Paint
By The Grief House
Wind Phones were first created in 2010 by Itaru Sasaki in Japan as he was grieving the death of his cousin. This concept has grown and spread in the last 15 years, and you can find Wind Phones around the world. Wind Phones are an interactive invitation to reflect and say the things we want to say to those we have lost. It is a reminder that we don't need a response to speak to our lost loved ones. Just speaking our grief out loud with intention is potent medicine in and of itself.
Featured Artists
Lisa Li
Lisa Li is a Filipino-American artist based in Atlanta whose minimalist, site-specific sculptures explore the relationship between form, material, and perception. Her career includes an internship at the Frist Art Museum and work at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, experiences that deepened her understanding of installation art and the museum experience. Lisa’s practice examines how art mediates interactions between architectural spaces and natural landscapes through spatial interventions that consider the ways viewers engage with their surroundings.
Dana Haugaard
Dana investigates how our bodies remember the physicality of its history. By playing with visual and physical sensation, Dana’s work activates the body in relationship to specific situations and sense memory triggers. Dana has been a resident in the Atlanta Contemporary’s Studio Artist Program and is a Hambidge Fellow. He has recently been shown at the Atlanta Contemporary, Zuckerman Museum at Kennesaw State University, the Macon Museum of Arts and Science, and the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids Michigan and won the Forward Art Foundation’s 2021 Edge Award. Dana received his MFA from the University of Iowa and is currently the Director of the Visual Arts Program and an Associate Teaching Professor at Emory University.
Ellex Swavoni
Ellex Swavoni (b. 1992, Louisville, KY) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Atlanta, GA, whose work explores the intersection of Afrofuturism, sound, and sculptural world-building. She began her artistic journey at the age of nine, teaching herself sculpture through online resources and later earning a B.S. in Graphic Design from Campbellsville University in 2014. Swavoni’s practice blends digital and traditional mediums, utilizing 3D printing, modeling software, and hand-finished details to craft intricate, futuristic artifacts that challenge conventional storytelling.
The Grief House
The Grief House creates and supports community-led offerings that foster the metabolism of grief from all kinds of loss.
They do this by cultivating, curating, and collaborating on gatherings and experiences at the Grief House and aligned project spaces throughout the community.
They work to hold physical and virtual space for grief to be expressed, shared and witnessed without judgment, and to re-integrate our experience of grief through a variety of somatic practices.
Opening Reception
The Space Within opening reception featured Free fitness class by RBG Experience, free yoga in the park by Camrei and a soundbath by Oyah, presented by Amador, live harp music by Sonia, and nourishing food by Smooth N Groove. Visitors were then invited to continue the day with experiences at Undergroud Atlanta as part of ELEVATE.
The Space Within is presented in partnership by Downtown Atlanta and Dashboard, in conjunction with Elevate Atlanta.
All photos by Jeffrey Moustache.
Additional support for this project was provided by
