Mountain Line Downtown Connection Center, Flagstaff, Arizona, 2025

Lion Eyes (Through the Forest) is an illuminated glass installation over the entry to Mountain Line’s new headquarters. The imagery, depicted through a grid of small dots screen printed with enamel in three colors, is inspired by elements of the transit agency‘s logo and Flagstaff’s natural beauty. The composition includes a mountain lion, the San Francisco peaks, and Ponderosa pine trees. These illustrations are superimposed, blending colors where their dots overlap. At night, LED fixtures inside the building illuminate the glass from behind. Different colored lights highlight or diminish individual image layers, making them either come to the foreground or recede as the light color changes.

Lion Eyes (Through the Forest) was commissioned by the City of Flagstaff. The glass was fabricated by Glasmalerei Peters and installed by Loven and Demers.