W 12 = Done and Dusted

Finally done! Weeks to think about and minutes to destroy (in fact the umbrella fell down just after our presentation: so that was lucky). And loads of materials tucked neatly in one corner of the studio as a resource for future units.

It was hard to photograph as you can see below and the movie just didn't work, but at least the sound track is up in this blog separately. The elements worked together very well - the glow soyfish needed to be at the front. We had to put the fan on high to have any real tenatacle moving impact and the glow paint didn't really glow for very long or very much. We think part of the problem was that the umbrella was moved away fromt he window during the week and it wasn't that bringht in the studio as it was. Oh well. Nicole's ceiling lighting worked well. Basically all the elements made a complete environment and used almost all the senses. There were even good reflections off the black plastic walls.

I called it - in the moment of presentation - 'A Glimpse of the Ocean Sublime', which is a term that a correspondant of Freud's used to describe the feeling of a religious experience. I really like that we succeeded in re-using so much of my rubbish from the first installation to construct another completely unnatural / natural environment. People were very curious about the sound track - my sound of a garbage truck stating up but manipulated so it sounds blooby or, as someone said, 'like my husband's stomach'.