Waiting, (200 Weeks) Art Exhibition and Opening Reception
Aug 2025
28
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Waiting, (200 Weeks) transforms the quiet endurance of infertility into a monumental and immersive sculpture. Created by artist and Associate Professor Tracy Marie Taylor, the 30-foot-tall helical form will be suspended in the atrium of the Durand Art Institute, inviting visitors to witness time itself—measured not in minutes, but in the rhythm of longing, repetition, and resilience.
The exhibition will be open from August 28 to September 28.
Each of the sculpture’s 200 horizontal bars represents one week of the artist’s four-year journey through infertility. The length of each bar reflects Chicago’s actual sunrise and sunset times, while its color palette evokes the coral hues of dawn and the cool grays of the hours between. The result is a visual map of time stretching and collapsing: seasons of hope, heartbreak, and endurance made visible.
Far from a linear timeline, the spiral structure evokes the cyclical nature of medical appointments, ovulation calendars, and emotional highs and lows. It draws viewers into a meditation on repetition, gravity, and the inward pull of waiting. “What began as an attempt to make sense of lost time—its weight, its repetition, its silence—became a meditation on patience and the ways our bodies exist within larger rhythms beyond our control,” says Taylor.
Waiting, (200 Weeks) is both deeply personal and universally resonant — offering a space for anyone who has lived through cycles of uncertainty and quiet perseverance. As visitors move around and beneath the spiraling sculpture, they are invited to consider how time accumulates and transforms, not in singular dramatic moments, but through the slow, quiet endurance of hope.
On Campus Accessibility Accommodations:
Contact Kirsten Schramm at 847-735-5167 or kschramm@lakeforest.edu at least 72 hours in advance.
