Assembled from a multitude of plastic water bottles arranged in concentric rings, Red Spirit Light is part of Willie Cole's long-running series of plastic water bottle chandeliers. Its menacing, red, cabalistic form cascades down upon viewers as if from the heavens, shining light upon us and directing our attention upward, towards the sun. The work embodies Cole's belief that his works are endowed with spirit. “I’m creating art the same way the universe does," Cole says. "I use multiples of single objects. I’m taking a single cell and multiplying it. I work an object to the point where I’m gonna get one beat away from the living thing, and the art tells me when it's there.” For Cole, his practice is about more than accumulation. It’s about transformation—familiar objects multiplied, combined, connected, forming something that transcends whatever importance the individual objects once had.