56° NORTH, 2007
site-specific installation: wood, photo-luminous paint, fluorescent paint, twilight sky, lightbox, timer

Installation is active during the transition of evening twilight. The lightbox switches on/off every 5 minutes. When lightbox is on, an arc of photoluminous paint absorbs light. When lightbox is off, the twilight sky becomes visible through a masked-off window and painted arc emits a blue glow. On/off switching interrupts the dark-adjustment of the eye such that the gradient of twilight is experienced as a series of discrete visual steps. The tilted wooden element aligns with the Pole Star and corresponds to Earth’s axis around which the planet spins to generate twilight. The work explores visual metaphors of natural/artificial light and analogue/measured time.