Denver artist installs light-and-flower work at Adams County Human Services Building

Eileen Rosina, an artist from Denver, has installed a light-and-flower installation at the Adams County Human Services Building in Adams County. Rosina said she used a mix of natural materials and industrial optics to create refracting, kaleidoscope-like effects intended to change with the sun.

Rosina described spending "hundreds of hours" gathering and growing flowers for the work. She identified gathering sites including the Pelican Open Ponds along Riverdale Drive and Riverdale Bluffs and listed plant material used in the installation: spirea, wild daisies, wild onions, calendula, marigold, yarrow, larkspur, wild rose, chive and lilacs. "I view the flowers as almost like my medium that I paint with," Rosina said.

The artist emphasized the installation’s temporality and relationship to light, saying it "will never look the same twice" as the sun moves and that the piece will be perceived to change "from now until May." She also acknowledged that UV exposure could fade the flowers over time but said refracted rainbows from the optics can restore visual interest.

Observers’ reactions, Rosina said, have ranged from children pressing close to the glass to a woman who became emotional and thanked her for bringing art into the space. Rosina framed the installation as intended to offer an unanticipated moment of beauty in a building where "people are dealing with difficult things" and may be receiving difficult news.

The installation is on view in the Adams County Human Services Building and, according to Rosina, will evolve with sunlight and exposure through May. The artist credited Amy Smith with showing her local open spaces and noted a family connection to floristry; she said her grandfather worked for Denver Wholesale Florist.

No formal action, vote or policy change was recorded in the transcript; the remarks were presented as an artist statement rather than part of a governing-body agenda.