Went to see the fluorescent light installation by artist Richard Box yesterday evening. He has planted many hundreds of tubular lamps in rows upright and equidistant in two fields either side of the river Goyt at the point where a footbridge is proposed. As the lamps are directly under high tension power lines, they glow in an eery, magical way. It’s a clever way of drawing attention to the bridge proposal and encouraging public debate.
Richard Box was actually there, and enthusiastic to talk about his work. There were a handful of other visitors, and we were all encouraged to interact with the ‘sculpture’ by wandering inbetween the lamps and even touching them to vary the glow.
Unfortunately it has not been without its technical challenges for Richard. Continue reading
With acknowledgements to Dr John, who was singing about an entirely different moral dilemma. There is a finite amount of oil on (in?) planet earth, right? I mean, they may not have discovered it all, and some oil may be very difficult to extract but whatever, there is only so much of it.