Lighting and Urban Art Meet Down by the River
If you have crossed Melbourne's new Bolte Bridge at night recently, you probably couldn't help noticing the artwork projected on the Grainco silos at Appleton Dock. The work, Confluence: a meeting of waters, is a project from artists Glen Romanis and Megan Evans, working in collaboration with Braham Ciddor of Lightmoves. The projections (from 14 Prolite custom-built 1200watt MSR profile spots) form a stylized map of the waterways in the area, depicting the trade routes originally followed by Aboriginals, and later by Europeans.
The process of developing the gobos to wrap images around the silos and produce a single map, was a major challenge for the project. Without the budget to access sophisticated 3D CAD and survey facilities, Braham devised a process that enabled the artists to develop the designs on high temperature glass gobos.
Each night for several weeks, dozens of times each night, the artists would sketch out designs on the glass, drive over the bridge to look at the results, then return to modify the sketches. The completed designs were then scanned and scaled, and sent to Lighting By Design to be turned into Aluminium gobos. The special 84° profile spots from Prolite, included such custom facilities as two gobo slots, lockable shutter blades and three adjustable lens elements for complete zoom and focus alignment. The artwork will be on display every night for the next 10 years.
For more details read the article in the October 2002 issue of Lighting Dimensions Architectural.
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