Upperground in Sant Pancras - London 2018
Upperground is a light installation that aims to recall of nature in a place where the user is most removed from it. The lights in the tunnel are connected to wind conditions and react to them in real time.
Sant Pancras is maybe one of the most urban environment, where control and speed is the key. Upperground aims to use the wind, a living thing that have an acting in the space. It creates through it a slow contemplative light animation to contrast with the urban life.
The movements of light are inspired by the movements of prayer wheels that can be found in buddhist temples, and the meditative state it generates.
Robotisation of humanity in general is a way to forget we are part of nature. And to forget our responsibility to protect it.