Firewall

A site-responsive installation made during the Arreciado residency, Spain. Flag tape was fitted into the squares of a fence, beside the dirt track leading to the farmhouse, imitating road reflectors. The squares of tape flip up in the wind catching and reflecting the sunlight which appears as bright flashes across the work. When lifted horizontal the squares seem to disappear then re-emerge from the landscape giving a mystical presence to the work. Light behind the work gives the orange tape a hot glow like burning coals. At times on fire, wild, dematerializing and reappearing, at times gently twinkling, a light show, electrified, at times oscillating like buzzing bees and fluttering butterflies. The work also has strong links to the virtual world, messages, transmitters, cellular frequencies, fading in and out, guardians of a kind, a firewall.