First Light Byzantium, Gold leaf. Time specific installation at Gate 27, Istanbul. 2024



Gregorian, Gold leaf. Permanent commission by Hopstial Rooms. Installed at Longreach House, Redruth 2024.

Calendars are a series of time-specific works that reference systems used to record the
passing of time.

First Light Byzantium: Created for Istanbul; once the centre of the Byzantine Empire with a
calendar beginning on September 1st which was believed to be the day of the creation of the
world. First Light Byzantium is a record in gold leaf of the first ray of light to enter the house
on day three of creation. In the book of Genesis this is when God created the dry land. 

Gregorian: On 14th September 1752 England moved from the Julian to the Gregorian
calendar. To do so eleven days had to be deleted, meaning everybody went to sleep on
September 2nd and woke on September 14th. Gregorian records the pattern of light across
walls at each end of a psychiatric ward at dawn and dusk. Two semi circles have been
gilded onto the window glass to meet when the window slides open.

Gold is an opulent material, associated with the sun, transcendence and permanence; used
for the halos of religious icons, wedding bands. It will not tarnish or decay.