20th January 2023
After a two year hiatus caused by that thing it was good to return to Canary Wharf for the annual Winter Lights Festival, a display of Illuminated artworks situated around the business district on London’s Isle of Dogs. Some of these were quite impressive and some were a bit meh to be honest but it made for an interesting - and free - evening out.
Some, such as In(visible) by Daneil Popescu you actually get to walk inside although I baulked at the opportunity to queue up for ages in the cold night air to wander through the dangling fibre optics of Anima.
Down at Westferry Circus there were super-Instagramable elephants although I don’t think the guy with the massive LED floodlight on top of his camera had the right idea for photographing illuminated art.
There were some really good London skyline views if you turned your back on the elephants though.
This year as part of the festival Canary Wharf Middle Dock got a visit from Luke Jerram’s Floating Earth where it prompts the difficult discussions we all need to have about climate change and what we, as individuals and wider society, can do to make our lifestyles more sustainable. From London it will be going to Brescia in Italy. I hope that it will be travelling sustainably.
I made a short video showing some more of the exhibits
And there are some more photos on Flickr here.
I look forward to doing it again next year.
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