Paso Robles’ wine and hospitality scenes are popping, and an extraordinary experience I’ve sought out two hours north is Sensorio , where Bruce Munro’s light exhibits continue to dazzle locals and tourists. Their first collaboration with outside artists is their latest exhibit, DIMENSIONS by HYBYCOZO , which landed this summer.
A friend introduced me to HYBYCOZO’s lights years ago when they were making smaller versions you could purchase for your home or office (you still can). I didn’t know that HYBYCOZO’s artists Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk had a larger vision for grand-scale versions to radiate throughout museums and public spaces worldwide. Over the years, their vision materialized from Turkey to Brazil to California, where we can explore the inner world of these artists.
After visiting DIMENSIONS with my 6-year-old son, who joyously ran around the jewel-toned garden of geometric sculptures, he said, “This could be a house if it didn’t have so many holes.” I was transported to an ethereal world of rainbow snowflakes, calming and reflecting. One man I passed said he thought the snowflake houses “hold the secrets of the universe.” My son and I left late, pulling him away from his favorites, the spinning ones.