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2013 | fluorescent fishing line, ultraviolet light, weather balloon | installation view: Royal British Society of Sculptors: Subterranean, Waterloo tunnels, London, 2013 | images: © Anne Purkiss

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“The main vault was bathed in red, blue and purple light that dramatised the space. It seemed to hold its breath like a stage awaiting a theatrical event; beamed along clusters of fine wire, shafts of green light sliced through the space from ceiling to floor. They hit their target with the precision of the celestial beams that impregnate the Virgin Mary in paintings of the Annunciation.

 Hanging low in the distance, meanwhile, a weather balloon glowed orange. Reflected in a puddle of water, it was reminiscent of the sun setting over a lake and draining the light from the sky as it sank towards the horizon. Memories of landscape and the nuances of natural light opened one’s mind to the wider world beyond this sunless place.” Sarah Kent (2016)