Borrowed Light

The sun's colours, gathered from many places into one room, moment by moment.

The light that leaves the sun is the same white for all of us. Everything that happens to its colour happens here: miles of air, cloud, dust, the haze over a city. The flat grey of a wet afternoon, the warmth before a sunset, the hard clear light of a northern coast, all of it the same sun, met differently.

The quiet natural beauty of light shifting across the world.

Small sensors on rooftops in different parts of the world read the colour of the daylight above them, live. That is the whole mechanism.

Alone, each colour is almost nothing, your eye quietly edits it away. Together, their differences make each one visible, and you find yourself, a little, in places you are not, under the same sun as everyone else. Whether that light can shift your mood, whether one sun landing differently across the world can be felt as well as seen: that is not a question this work answers. It is the question it puts to you, by letting you stand inside it.

Colour, arriving from somewhere else.

A work in progress, and openly so. One sensor has been reading a London sky; others will follow, elsewhere. What form the standing-inside finally takes, whether light, projection, or something else, is still being explored.

If you would like to hear more about the project's plans and ambitions, please do get in touch.