Poloris

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Here I am, just casually shopping around Liverpool, popping into the Odeon to watch the Crimes of Grindelwald and BAM there is a big installation in the middle of L1, so of course I drag my friends over to see it.
The installation features IBC tanks filled with synchronised lights, put together in a colosseum like structure. The crazy thing about this installation is that just a couple of weeks ago I went to the junk yard to look for materials and came across some IBC tanks, at the time I didn’t know what they were but I was really intrigued by it and was saying to my friends I would want to make something with it but they where to big to carry and now I’m just shopping and see this installation, if phones aren’t listening and stealing my ideas I don’t know what’s going on.
Anyway this installation is called Poloris by the artist Mark Robinson who explains how he was inspired by “ the brightest star in the constellation” and that this installation represents Liverpool at its core, showing how far and wide Liverpool’s culture has spread and how world-wide influences are seen in the city in many ways such as the arts.
I found the installation extremely interesting and eye catching especially at night where the lights brighten up this darker area of L1 where there are no street lights. I also found the positioning and structure fascinating as you can walk around and inside this colosseum / igloo. Having that small aspect of audience interaction makes this piece even more interesting to me, as this is an important aspect in my own work. In conclusion I really enjoyed this work and not just because it may have been a similar idea to my own (that the government has stolen from me) but because of the unique structure and placement that the artist has used and on this work alone I will probably look more into this artists work. 


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