Sky Lights
Media and installation project that explores how the image of the sky can elicit memory and connectivity between people and places.
Sky Lights is an ongoing project that is open to collaboration. If you are interested to participate in or with the project as an individual or institution, please don’t hesitate to contact.
About Sky Lights
If asked to select a section of the sky to project in your window, where would that sky be?
Sky Lights consists of installations in which recorded videos of the sky from different locations around the world are projected from inside participants’ houses or workspaces into their windows. From the public view, the videos catch attention much as any screen (TV, phone, or computer) would. However, in contrast to the typical use of screens as advertising platforms, Sky Lights calls attention to an image that is calm and universal, inviting the viewer to observe the work as an image that fits naturally within the urban scene.
Meanwhile, from the private perspective, each sky displayed references a location chosen by each participant. Videos may reference a home country or city, while others were chosen based on the visual conditions of the sky, or as a reference to a person. In this way, Sky Lights creates a sense of connection and presence between the participants’ current space and another place of personal significance.
In preparation and corresponding to each installation, the artist engages each participant in an interview with questions pertaining to the topics of presence, public and private space, and the use of technology such as phones and social media. Such questions provide insight on the topics central to the project, while also creating a personal connection between the work and the participants.
In addition to the installations mentioned above, Sky Lights has expanded through call-outs on Instagram, in which anyone may send a sky video with an audio description to be displayed on the social media platform. Together with the documentation collected from the installed work, the project thus creates a comprehensive archive of people’s relationships, observations, and reactions to the sky.