Mixed media (gabion cages, LED light source, audio)
I am fascinated by Morse Code and messaging, and my inspiration for this work derives from a love of camping, imagining tents as luminaires and old valve radios. The work is further inspired by an article about the charity Shelterbox, who provide first response relief and shelter to people caught in the midst of natural disaster and humanitarian crises. A pathway of covered gabion cages stand sentry by day, transforming at night, illuminating the nocturnal landscape in an array of lights synchronized to the tuning of an old radio, snippets of sound and music emerging from a static fuzz. A shifting soundscape of pulses and streams of light through the installation is abruptly interrupted by the urgent Morse Code international distress signal …—… SOS.
