May 2024 – the start of colour-field
After nearly 20 entries of trying to catch up with all that’s happened in the life of the Twin Dome, I’m finally up-to-date and ready to continue the Twin Dome blog in the present tense. Very much planning that it stays that way from here on in.
Right now we’re getting ready for a new installation in my ongoing collaboration with Anne-Marie – along with much support from Aleks (observatory director) and Chris (technician). The new work goes under the title of colour-field and is a pretty major expansion and evolution of last year’s work in colour. Colour-field opens to the public on Friday the 14th of June – just over three weeks away – and after that the Twin Dome will be busier than ever with two more events in July and September. More about those at the end of this.
Just as with in colour in 2023, colour-field is timed around the days of the summer solstice and so is very much about reacting and interacting with the daylight which now floods through the new east window – the window that re-started life for the Twin Dome.
The first stage of this year’s planning was to finally get the beginnings of a wildflower meadow established to the east of the Twin Dome. Wildflowers were also in the planning last year but a freakishly cold and wet April put paid to that. This time around we got the turf prepared some weeks back and the seeds have just gone in so here’s hoping that they all burst into colour before too long.
The other two events are firstly an installation by Dundee based artist Wendy Bell with a work called Breath to open on the first weekend in July and then a collaboration with the Royal Society of Edinburgh in September. Full listings of times and dates of all of the above to follow very soon.