7th June 2024 – opening in one week
With one week to go until the public opening of the new collaboration colour-field, the interior space of the twin dome is noticeably and incrementally building in light levels with each day. This is not to do with any extra sunlight coming through the east window (in fact, with the current weather, there’s definitely less sunlight). What it’s much more to do with are the steadily increasing areas of reflective surfaces to keep what light there is bouncing back and forth – and generally everywhere.
I’ve kept the ‘disturbed’ spectrum of the north wall from last year’s in colour but now there’s a very different kind of dialogue across the space with new colour elements of the south wall. These elements have a much more fleeting quality and they have a connection to what astronomers call absorption lines. These are tiny fragments (lines) in the sun’s spectrum where the colour frequency is missing – absorbed in the outer atmosphere of the sun and seen as just a black line. Colour-field – in both light and sound – delves into the realm of these missing colours.