Life on the Outside: Manuel Lima Ends His Night and Starts His Day on the Strip

Manuel Lima, the Brazilian-born artist who has taken up residency in “The Cube” on Sunset Boulevard, steps out of that solitary, albeit brightly lit and musical space, at 5 p.m. every day for a cup of tea with West Hollywood.

Lima began his 10-day life in The Cube on Friday as part of the City of West Hollywood’s Art on the Outside program. Inside the 10-foot-wide square translucent structure, temporarily constructed around a shade tree, there is a piano and strings of red light bulbs. And Lima, performing. He integrates original music and light compositions with daily life and interactions with passers-by. His final recital will on the evening of the tenth day, which is Sunday. Beginning at about 8 p.m. each day, after a dinner break, Lima performs “Red Light Piano,” an original light and sound composition with variations increasing in length through his successive days in The Cube. It is located at the city public parking lot at 8775 Sunset Blvd. just east of Horn Avenue.

If you don’t have time to visit The Cube and share tea with Lima (and you should), you can follow his life there through the work of photographer Jon Viscott, which will be updated daily on WEHOville. Below you can see Lima to to bed and sleep. Then, at sunrise, he wakes up and runs down Sunset before returning to The Cube to perform.