Winter Lights- Canary Wharf

The Canary Wharf Winter Lights were stunning to look at and created a very relaxing atmosphere to be immersed in. Some of the pieces, such as Intrude by Amanda Parer (pictured above), were very surreal, inverting the difference in scale and dominance of both humans and rabbits. The piece was made to highlight the problem Australia has with the large amount of wild rabbits in some communities becoming pests. The dominance the huge bunnies have over the tiny humans that walk amongst them helps to illustrate this situation/narrative well and project the seriousness of this problem onto a different landscape in order to help others around the world to better understand it.

Some of the pieces were more interactive than others, allowing visitors to create and be apart of the display instead of just standing and viewing it from a distance. The piece above was one of these as it allowed the visitors to make a pose and have that picture of themselves be apart of the exhibition. This is something to consider as we create our own narrative environment as it is these interactive pieces that stay with the viewer and are what they remember from the experience. We could use this factor of interactive displays to our advantage as this will better allow the viewers to remember the topic we will be trying to be raising awareness for.

This piece made me realise the importance of point of view and angles when the visitor is exposed to the piece as perspective can change the person's impression of it immensely.

This piece was also very interactive as it allowed viewers to go in the room and appreciate the lights either on their own or in their group making the experience all the more personal as they were able to create the shapes and shadows.

Similarly these luminous and movable boxes allowed people to create their own shapes and narrative in the space provided. Allowing the viewers to actively participate in the display will increase the likelihood of them remembering the experience so again this is something worth considering when making our own narrative experience.

I particularly liked how these lights and the patterns they created were coordinated with the music. The animation therefore enhanced the experience by visually representing the music's narrative.

I'm not entirely sure if this bridge was part of the exhibition but even so it enabled me to better understand how light and colour can drastically alter the atmosphere of a space and therefore the viewers interpretation of it.