Hi Fiona, Magdy and Wanda,
Good to see the wheels are turning in our collective minds! Wanda and I had a chat about it in the car on the way to Eungella yesterday too.
I think the plan was to have the piece (in its carousel formation) stationery, with the light inside rotating on the rotisserie. This way it will be much less complicated to make and to assemble.
If it’s going to work best in the windows of the MECC, that’s fine with me. If we are going for the six sided carousel, we could then either install it as six vertical panels, or 18 small panels (which might be a bit small given the size of the windows?) or perhaps 2 or 3 to a window but not necessarily aligned vertically – all sorts of options. What would you think about blacking out the remaining space on the windows outside the panels?
Regarding materials, we were thinking that maybe each panel could be backed with white Perspex (as in a light box), and maybe a sheet of clear Perspex on the front, to make a little box (only as deep as the width of the timber frame – maybe 3 or 4 cm), this would give the panels structural stability and durability, if they were being transported and installed by other people at other locations for example, plus it would give some scope for a little bit of 3-dimensionality, what do you think? It should be easy enough to install buttons, sensors etc into the clear Perspex front.
If we had six sides, Magdy, Wanda and I would then start out with our two panels each for our initial concepts. We would then pass these on (maybe one to each person, eg I would give one of mine to Magdy and one to Wanda) for their response on the next panel (and possibly addition to the first panel? or perhaps give the next person a motif from the first panel to include in their panel?) As we were driving and chatting we discussed the possibility of the panels being arranged quite randomly, and when lending the work to other people they could arrange them how they wish – having their own input into how the pieces work together for them, what do you think about that?
