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Metro-morphosis

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Brightblue Studio

9 Cliffords Fort , NORTH SHIELDS , Tyne and Wear , NE30 1JE

Installation: Asking the traveller where they are from, where they are going and why? More than 1400 pieces of glass, each of which is structurally bonded creating a 28 metre-long glass carpet, suspended on nylon line. Interactive sound and light is triggered by sensors at the ends of the bridge, and leads the traveller to the other side. The bridge installation was developed throughout a four-week ‘open studio’ at The Globe Gallery (INTER-ACT), during which local people were invited to contribute ideas and impressions of their body to the sculpture and see how it was being created. Metro-morphosis received 12,000 visitors per week. Waste stream float glass; kiln-formed feet; interactive sound and light; Resin bonded bus stop shattered glass