PROJECT: BREATHING TREES, POTTERS FIELDS PARK

LIGHTING DESIGN: CREATMOSPHERE

MANUFACTURER: ANOLIS

Creatmosphere is recreating a large-scale immersive outdoor light and sound installation called BREATHING TREES, firstly commissioned for the festival Arbres et Lumieres in 2006 in Geneva. The piece will transform two enormous London Plane trees located on the south side of Potters Fields Park into living, breathing lungs.

Founder and director of the company, Laurent Louyer, got the idea for the piece when looking at the trees from a distance; he realised that they represented giant upside down lungs. He says: "I thought it would be great to make these incredibly impressive trees come alive and breathe with light. I then decided to add in sound thinking that together, and at this scale, they would provoke feelings and emotions strong enough to make us rethink the basic human condition - on how we're all deeply dependant on what trees give us: oxygen."

Using LED-dimming colour changing technology, the lights will be displayed in the trees to ensure that light is moving through to the branches and foliage. Along with an integrated triggering 3d sound installation (developed with Martyn Ware from Illustrious Company), the trees will actually look and sound like they are breathing. The piece will not only have an aesthetic beauty but will also raise socio political questions around environmental issues of pollution, climate change etc.