Double Negative

Light Installation on Coniston Water FRED Festival of Site Specific Art 2007 We usually encounter a lake as a surface whose appearance owes more to the deception of mirror than the transparency of glass. In the English Lake District, mountains reflected on water suggest the lake takes the form and colour of its perfect inverse. In reality lakes are more murky and mysterious. A more uncertain world lies under these surfaces. Uncleansed by waves or swift currents, the moraines and silts of not only geological history line these lakebeds. Forty-eight lights float silently on the surface of Coniston Water illuminating the lake bed. Day and night, water and air are reversed, as the bed of the lake, the fish and plant life come become the focus of attention.