The upcoming exhibit in the glass atrium of the San Juan Islands Museum of Art, “Liminal Currents: Exploration of an Empathic Umwelt,” will be designed and directed by Friday Harbor sculptor Matthew Gray Palmer, but visitors and volunteers are encouraged to help complete the project during its duration at IMA.

Visitors of the exhibit can write blessings, thoughts, wishes and prayers on “ribbons” that will become part of the artwork.

“By engaging our capacity for imagining what another being experience empathically, we might shift our perspective to include a fuller picture of the ways we have, do, and will connect, communicate, and share the world with other denizens of this island jewel,” Palmer said of the exhibit’s concept and design.

Of German origin, “Umwelt”, pronounced “oomvelt,” means, the world as it is experienced by a particular organism.

Although the installation opens May 23, construction of the exhibit will continue with assistance of community volunteers.

To learn more about how to participate, contact Diane Martindale, 360-370-5814.