On Stars and Mirrored Yachts

by Ruth Barker, 5 Jul 2011

Hello,

I wanted to share these with you. Zoe Walker and Neil Bromwich have been out and about in their very Bonnie Boat

The work is very beautifully described on their website

“Celestial Radio is a seductive and functional sculptural object, a radio station housed on a sailing boat whose surface is covered by 60, 0000 inch square mirror tiles; she splinters daylight as if transmitting Morse code messages. The Celeste travels literally across the high seas while conceptually exploring the metaphorical oceans of life’s big questions both cosmic and microscopic.
Each time the Celeste anchors off shore in a new location we engage local people in conversations and interviews, recording sound and mixing music to create a site-specific broadcast.”

And I’m sure that you’ve heard about Cecil Balmond’s winning design for The Great Unknown? You can see some BBC Coverage here There’ll be much, much more on PAR+RS about this enormous project very soon, so keep your eyes peeled.

More later,

R

Image shows Charles Jencks/Cecil Balmond design, Star of Caledonia, winner of the Gretna Landmark’s ‘Great Unknown’ competition. With thanks to Wide Open (South Scotland) Ltd.