British artist Alan Parkinson is artistic director of Architects of Air, a company he founded in the early 90s to design and construct interactive pneumatic structures he calls luminaria. While it looks like a glorified bouncy house from the outside, a luminarium is actually an elaborate structure that uses natural and artificial light to create a cathedral of colors and forms inside. Much as it is difficult to concisely describe  Cirque de Soleil, it is also difficult to put into words the experience of being inside one of these luminaria.

Parkinson’s most recent creation, Amococo, is currently installed at the Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, Arizona and I was able to get in to photograph the structure this morning before it opened. Here are a few of the images from that shoot:

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