Mixed media (optical fibre, PET/glass bottles, LED light source, audio)
In my 20s I read The Gifts of Unknown Things by Lyall Watson, a radical thinker operating on the margins of accepted science. Watson describes a young girl living on an island in the Indonesian archipelago who possesses the gift of seeing sounds in colour, a phenomenon known as colour synaesthesia. He also claimed the Earth has a natural pulse in the upper atmosphere, resonating at a rate of 69 beats per day, forming a deep note well below human powers of hearing. As a tribute to Watson, Light/Water-Towers consists of 69 towers that change colour in response to the music emanating from within them, the soundtrack reflecting the musical diversity of many nations. Each tower is about 2 metres tall and made from over 200 stacked water bottles illuminated by optic fibres. The piece was originally created and exhibited in 2010 within the cloisters of Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire and in this formation the towers resembled enormous liquid batteries of light arranged in a maze formation.
