This is the final post in the Enlighten 2016 series. I started with a Sunday Selections devoted to the rabbit sub-theme, which you can find here. Then to another Sunday Selections featuring jelly fish which is here, and then to the first half of the illuminations in this post.
This is another photo-heavy post.
I thoroughly enjoyed Enlighten but in the last few days have read something which has taken some of the shine off. Our local government commissioned young and emerging artists to design the projections for the buildings. Sadly they decided that having the work publically displayed was sufficient payment. The outcry has been such that I hope in future years the artists WILL get financial recognition too.
More coloured eucalypts.
Starting at Old Parliament House. Many of the illuminations were political in nature.
Moving to Questacon, our interactive Science and Technology Centre. Most, but not all, of the projections were geometric.
There was a hologram of a spider outside the first night we visited, and it was echoed on the walls on the last night.
Then to two acrobatic performances near by - both making use of hoops inset with neon lights. They moved too fast for my camera, but I think (hope) that the blur conveys some of the mood.
Then to the National Library. With the exception of the ubiquitous rabbits, their illuminations reference the recent exhibition about Celestial China.
Nearly finished now. Just two random acts, splashes of colour and quirkiness.
It really is an explosion of light, colour (and sound) isn't it?
This is another photo-heavy post.
I thoroughly enjoyed Enlighten but in the last few days have read something which has taken some of the shine off. Our local government commissioned young and emerging artists to design the projections for the buildings. Sadly they decided that having the work publically displayed was sufficient payment. The outcry has been such that I hope in future years the artists WILL get financial recognition too.
More coloured eucalypts.
Starting at Old Parliament House. Many of the illuminations were political in nature.
Moving to Questacon, our interactive Science and Technology Centre. Most, but not all, of the projections were geometric.
There was a hologram of a spider outside the first night we visited, and it was echoed on the walls on the last night.
Then to two acrobatic performances near by - both making use of hoops inset with neon lights. They moved too fast for my camera, but I think (hope) that the blur conveys some of the mood.
Then to the National Library. With the exception of the ubiquitous rabbits, their illuminations reference the recent exhibition about Celestial China.
Nearly finished now. Just two random acts, splashes of colour and quirkiness.
It really is an explosion of light, colour (and sound) isn't it?
