WHAT WE HEAR WHEN WE ARE NOT LOOKING
Jonathan Wright | Scultpure & Sound
Site: Dungeness Lighthouse, Kent

The invention of the technology to capture and replay a moving image caused a fundamental shift in the way we saw ourselves existing in the world.

"Being is not a steady state but an occulting one: we are all of us a succession of stillness blurring into motion on the wheel of action, and it is in those spaces of black between the pictures that we find the heart of mystery in which we are never allowed to rest."
Gösta Kraken

The screen provides a focus for our reflections and a vehicle to hear and see in a new way. There is a vanishing point where vastness may be compressed and passed through the eye of a needle whereupon it may become vast again. This vanishing point is where we can see and hear things most clearly. The lighthouse provides the perfect needle where this process is made possible.