British artist Liz West’s latest installation is sure to bring light to even the gloomiest of winter days. Through No. 3, commissioned by Castlefield Gallery, is a triangular prism of radiant color that is installed in Manchester’s Crown Square through January 6th. It’s open to the public, so anyone can take a stroll through the twenty-foot long prism and gaze out at the city through West’s brightly tinted panes.
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“I am interested in exploring how sensory phenomena can invoke psychological and physical responses that tap into our own deeply entrenched relationships to color,” writes the artist. The work channels her own childhood memories of being surrounded by light and color, “walking underneath vivid green leaf canopies with beams of sunlight pouring through… or being driven through neon lit cities at night and seeing the blurring of luminous colors as [she passed.]” This isn’t West’s first exploration of light and color; the artist is fresh off another work, An Additive Mix, that saw her build a dizzying room of mirrors and colored lights, and last winter she debuted Your Color Perception, which lit an entire floor of a building in West’s signature bright color pallette.
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See more of Liz West’s work here.
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