Lightning welcomes visitors to the BASE Community Center and serves as a breathtaking memorial to Anne Buchanan and others lost too soon. Much like the art Anne collected, Lightning is notable for its striking composition, complex details and dazzling color palate. Made of painted stainless steel, it compels visitors to come closer to observe and celebrate the vibrancy of art and life. Created by Linda Fleming, whose work hints at the co-existence of the mundane and the cosmological where two realities simultaneously exist including the possibility that the past is also present. The structures are diagrams of thought that provide a glimpse of the strangeness beyond the everyday world; opening a place where thought becomes tangible, history leaves a trace, and information exhales form. Material can never fully communicate thought, which makes these elaborate constructions more poignant in their attempt than they would ever be in their articulateness.