Lux Aqua Pura is a month-long site-specific video installation, created by Marianna Haniger, currently being presented in the Water Tower at Seattle’s Volunteer Park.On the North Stairwell, video footage of flowing water is projected on the stairs from the structural trusses above. The viewer’s body interrupts the water fall, casting a shadow onto the stairs. Sounds from the waterfall emanate from speakers reverberating throughout the stairwell. The South Stairwell is an audio installation with two hundred miniature transistor radio speakers mounted underneath the stairs. The laughter of children ricochets from speaker to speaker working its way up and down the stairwell. Besides orchestrating the installation, Haniger has also constructed a tied-in website to offer a Virtual Reality-type experience for those outside Seattle but on-line. The Lux Aqua Pura website will allow audiences from around the world to visit the Tower and take a virtual tour of the exhibition. After the exhibition has ended, the website will continue to be on-line for several months. Someday, we may have real-time Virtual Reality vistas of forests in our living rooms, where we can observe nature without penetration, wandering through the glacial blue rooms of the hyper real. For now, we have Lux Aqua Pura.