This artwork was commissioned by Poplar Harca, and produced and installed through Freeform Arts Trust.
After workshops with resident youths, using Perspex, spray paint and powerful torches to produce colourful forms, I designed a ‘post-box’ for residents of the Lincoln Estate to donate small objects that had some particular meaning to them. The results were amazingly diverse. There were old photos, coins, keys, plastic dinosaurs (!) and so on. These objects I photographed and had printed on UV proof acetate. I then sandwiched the images between two thick (15mm) layers of (bullet proof!) polycarbonate and then fixed them into a ‘window’ of the (12 foot) steel diamond structure.
Inside the sculpture is a fibre-optic wand, connected to the national street light grid. So during the dark hours the sculpture glows consistently through the colours of the rainbow.
This project was the centre page of the (Blair) governments’ ‘Urban Summit” 2002, celebrating Culture and Diversity.