In a city of millions a fleeting moment of understanding is offered. The vaulted ceiling of Stainer street tunnel appears crystallised. A thousand tiny pieces of sky glimmer from within the form. The arrangement seems organic at first, fractured like the pattern of stars across the night; But as the traveller moves deeper, an underlying order appears. Some of the crystals reflect what is happening beneath, set amongst the sky above. The hidden pattern gradually phases into being until at one magical point in the centre of the tunnel the traveller can look up to see herself, reflected a thousand times in the ceiling sky scape flowing above her head. Using a series of mirrors, fibre optics and prisms, the light from the sky above London Bridge station is redirected, concentrated and then scattered across a suspended crystalline cloudscape in the tunnel below. This way an ever-changing skyscape is incorporated into the intervention. Allied to this an array of mirrors and optics which share a focal point in the centre of the tunnel create a multi-faced reflection of a person standing in the key spot.

“The Panopticon”

Artefacts of histories past serve as their memory in the world. Only through witnessing them can this memory be kept alive. The panopticon is a strange device unearthed from the cellars of a Victorian museum. Part Contraption, part symbolic machine. It is a mechanical armature that serves as a display instrument for the archaeological finds in the London Bridge site and further afield. Each artefact is taken, in turn and shown in exquisite detail using magnifying lenses, and focussed lighting. This creates a carousel of curiosities, infinitely extensible by adding more artefacts to the collection. The work is at once an exhibition, a celebration of local history, and a treatise on mans’ desire to scrutinise, codify his world, and frame his endeavours.

“Cast”

Passers-by are invited to engage with a snapshot in time. Concrete is petrified in a flexible formwork, revealing its once fluid behaviour as a series of frozen tension curves, twists and bulges; ornament as an expression of material properties. The resultant fluid geometries defy the apparent rigidity of the cast surface, attracting curious glances and demanding haptic interaction; offering a moment to connect a transient, population with their surroundings.