The Lighthouse installation
The Planter
(next to St Peters Church/M&S)
8th February
6-10pm
The installation is an experiment in interaction with the ever changing and erratic face of urban life - to which lights at night add both comfort and confusion - and to provide some semblance with the functions of lighthouses at sea.
The Planter
(next to St Peters Church/M&S)
8th February
6-10pm
The installation is an experiment in interaction with the ever changing and erratic face of urban life - to which lights at night add both comfort and confusion - and to provide some semblance with the functions of lighthouses at sea.
The public are asked to consider the ambivalence of meaning the lighthouse portrays both as a protector to those who are lost and as a symbol of danger. The artists Brenda Baxter and Loz Cliffe explore whether it's possible for the Lighthouse, in an urban setting, to offer direction to a place of safety and act as a warning of danger and uncertainty.
The Lighthouse’s positioning brings attention to the historical gateway of the city and offers the public a rare chance to participate in sharing whether it offers them protection or not.
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| Example of a lighthouse as part of urban development (not by the artists) Kings Cross, London 2013 Photo © Brenda Baxter |
“so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again ... murmured by nature, ‘I am guarding you—I am your support," but at other times suddenly and unexpectedly, especially when her mind raised itself slightly from the task actually in hand, had no such kindly meaning, but like a ghostly roll of drums remorsely beat the measure of life, made one think of the destruction of the island and its engulfment in the sea, and warned her whose day had slipped past in one quick doing after another that it was all ephemeral as a rainbow..." Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
These are the pedestrianised trade routes - on the shoreline there are places of refuge - a church - marks and spencers - various coffee shops - waves of shoppers ebb and flow...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments banjaxed! I have identified that the lighthouse pictured is not the work of the artists and is there to show how lighthouses can be featured within urban settings.
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