The South West has a quality of natural light that attracts artists from all over the world. In contrast seaside towns like Weston super Mare have traditionally used neon and spectacular lighting as part of the 'bucket and spade' holiday experience. For Travelling light I wanted to express these contrasting ideas about light in the choice of form, light sources and the colour programming.

Travelling Light has 2000 digitally controlled LED lights mounted on a 13metre mirror stainless steel column. Each RGB LED node is individually programmable and a computer with an astronomical clock creates programmed lighting events for every day of the week and special effects for specific days and times of the year.

During the week Travelling Light gently scrolls through the primary colours with an electric sparkle. There are rainbows on Saturday and all white on Sundays. On Valentines Day it throws up a river of pink hearts and simulated light fireworks for New Year. Other dates include electric snow for Christmas, cosmic colour patterns for summer and winter solstices, flames on bonfire night and space-invaders on Halloween. The structure of the sculpture is manufactured in mirror stainless steel and reflects the sky during the day changing colour depending on the climatic conditions.