ANDY WEBSTER
[dimensions 12m x 1.8m x 0.5m]
Solar LED Lights, Plywood, Scaffold [Variable dimensions. Approx: 10.6m x 4.8m x 4.8m]
The work is a temporary architectural intervention consisting of a scaffold tower structure topped with illuminated text, sited within a forest clearing. The word FREE appears on two sides of the tower's upper section, visible as painted text during daylight hours and illuminated by solar-powered LEDs as darkness falls. Each evening, the illuminated text gradually fragments and fades as its stored solar energy depletes, creating a daily cycle of emergence and disappearance.
The project reimagines a structure originally built for the 1972 Bickershaw Pop Festival in northern England. By relocating this form from its original context of countercultural gathering to a forest clearing (Kreuth) - a site historically associated with commons and collective land use, the work invites new readings around themes of freedom, environmental precarity, and public space.
A collaborative project with Derek Tyman, realised with the support of Hubert Maier and Peter Kees, and created in Forsthaus St. Hubertus, Ebersberg Forest, for the SCHÖNE NEUE WELT festival [2023].