Early August 2024 – much more colour-field
For the start of August I’m now straight into building the next installation of “Beyond the Horizon” which is to be a new collaboration with the Royal Society of Edinburgh. This will be where I finally get to use a significant part of the huge collection of observatory negatives – the whole of the southern hemisphere – which has been waiting for me to do something with for about 3 years. More on that will follow in a week or two as it’s still early stages and right now there’s nothing much to show for it except a giant stack of archive boxes full of negatives.
That exhibition opens on the 7th of September but meanwhile, outside the Twin Dome, there’s a lot more happening in the wildflower area. I like to think of it as the wildflower meadow but, to be honest, It’s not really big enough for that description yet. We do have plans to continue to enlarge it though so I’m hoping to legitimately call it a meadow in the not-too-distant future.
I see that my previous post the wildflowers were all coming up very strongly but without a single flower to show for it. A few days after that post the first flower finally did appear (a Cornflower) and since then the whole area has exploded into life – and grown way taller than I ever expected. We have Poppies, Oxeye Daisies, Corn Daisies and Cornflowers and lots of beasties. Throw in the green of all the foliage and that’s a fairly reasonable coverage of the spectrum. Maybe something orange and something purple for next year.