Movie

Here is a link to the movie of the piece on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwoLp-rATS8&feature=related

For me, this image summarizes the project - the feel of the birch trees, caught and preserved behind glass, with a view glimpsed beyond. Of course, to really experience the work, you have to stand in the space, and watch the shadows flit and flicker...

Blinking in the daylight

Peter has uploaded lots of dramatic images from the opening night of 'Chasing Shadows', with all the dark mystery and drama of the piece. Now I am adding a couple of much more prosaic bright lit ones, just to add a sense of views through the birch trees to the herd beyond.

The show went up

First photos of the show on opening night.

nothing but blue skies

Arrived in Kaunas on monday to blue skies but five degrees less heat. hats and scarves please. Lovely autumn colours on show.

But that was my only taste of daylight for the last few days as we got round to hanging the work in the trophy room at the museum. All the crates had arrived safely from Dublin. The first job was to get the ceiling lights colour wrapped and then to start laying out the trees across the ceiling grid. Here you can see Lukas on tree no 12....

...And here they are, all up and quick test fire of the power to make sure they are all working.

Diorama Dramas

I have always been fascinated by museum dioramas - those wonderful minature worlds of skewed perspective... dramatic moments caught for perpetuity behind glass. The Ivanauskas museum has some fine examples:

In a way, this is what we are doing with our piece - putting the animals into context.

I have been looking at birch trees a lot recently, working on the burning and markmaking. In his Flora Britannica, Richard maybe dscribes them as a pioneering species - I like the term.