reflection2: I made something happen, but what was it ?
The most difficult thing was to be decisive – it’s a big space, people walking in and out, builders were working on the windows making it a bit noisy – so keeping focused and feeling unselfconscious was tricky.
Initially I tried make some kind of physical intervention, which in the daylight seemed an obvious way of breaking up the space. This took the form of a large canvas sheet hung from across the nave, which made a statement, but it was far too loaded and floppy and obvious.
As the day darkened the use of projections became much more interesting and to some extent knocked back the strength of the pillars, aisle spaces and chancel area.
I projected video clips that were inspired by the plain windows, and played them back in a kind of bar-code fashion moving up and down the walls. The bubbly texture of the glass lending the walls a kind of moon surface glow and texture. The projections interrupted the space more subtley than the canvas and were more intriguing.
