Exhibition
Night Watch - Winter Lighting by WOKmedia
28 Nov 2007 – 31 Jan 2008
Event times
Daily 6am - midnight
Address
- One Canada Square
- Canary Wharf
- London
- E14 5AB
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: 277, D3, D7, D8, N50 and the city airport shuttlebus
- Canary Wharf
About
Julie Mathias and Wolfgang Kaeppner of WOKmedia have been commissioned by Canary Wharf to create a new large-scale light installation for the annual winter lighting exhibition in Jubilee Park, to enliven the dark winter months.Night Watch employs the ancient Chinese art of inside painting where an image is reverse-painted through a small opening of a hollowed crystal ball. WOKmedia has used the technique to paint a stunning variety of animal eyes into 200 crystal balls, which will be placed throughout the park, among the bushes and trees.
In collaboration with lighting designer Admir Jukanovic/MindsEye the crystal balls are illuminated through automotive lights, resulting in a mesmerizing glow similar to animal eyes hit by a beam of light.
When night falls a secret life unfolds that we tend to forget. The eyes tell the story of a creature's life: its sources of food, its habits, its fears, and the history of its kind.
WOKmedia's vision was to create an installation that is not there to be looked at rather it is looking at us. Being watched and observed has become an almost accepted part of our lives. The animal eyes act as metaphors with questioning gazes towards our secured and controlled environments with little space left of unruled development.
