Temporal Change/ 1994/5   The Douglas Hyde Gallery and IMMA, Dublin, Ireland

A composition that balanced constructed order and untouched stillness, it suggested a journey of discovery from human-made confinements to expansive openness.

At the Douglas Hyde, the team built the installation over three weeks, incorporating sixty illuminated shell-cast plaster forms, a fourteen-meter plaster construction in two-meter sections, back-lit with striplights, collage photographs put together with clear silicon of fig trees wet and ripe with fruit which was documented at night, a multilayered soundtrack of rain played throughout the gallery space, six glass water tanks, one filled with blue pigment and all containing a sealed illuminated photograph of tree stumps within a cityscape.

This was one of my first responsive lighting systems that responded to the daylight levels outside the space, mimicking that lux level within the gallery itself, using none of the in-house lighting.

Catalog Essay and Exhibition Curated by John Hutchinson.