Woodblock Wednesday - light, colour, towers

This week is half term at Morley - no class - and I've not done anything during the week, apart from following #mokuhanga and #woodblockprinting on Instagram. And keeping an eye out for likely subjects...

For instance, the illuminated tower at Imperial College has given me some colour ideas -

But what form would the tower take (and would it even be a tower...)? Another illuminated tower encountered recently was this one in Amiens in October -

... and of course there are thousands of images here.

Which brings to mind the tower that Yoko Ono designed for an island in Rejkyavik, in memory of John Lennon. This work of "land art"  was opened on 9 October 2007, John's 67th birthday. It's a simple upward beam of white light, modified only by Iceland's atmosphere and weather conditions. It's visible every year from 9 October till 8 December (the date of John's death), and from Winter Solstice (21 December) and into the morning of the New Year (1 January) as well as the first week of spring (20-27 March), the dates of John and Yoko’s wedding and honeymoon. The phrase "Imagine Peace" appears on it in 24 languages. You can add your wish via the Imagine Peace Tower website.

But I digress.

Winter Lights in Docklands

Canary Wharf has a year-round light show in the illumination of its enormous office buildings, and from 16th to 27th January it had some clever and arty pieces on show at ground level. Here are a few; various videos (including this one with a cute kid) show others.

Much photography everywhere!
"Huge Reeds"

The elements of Bloom are location-aware and able to communicate;
also they made a changing soundscape

Horizontal Interference links the tops of trees with strips of light

The cascade of words in Bit.Fall is derived from a live newsfeed

Drawing with light onto mist: Water Wall

Some "natural" illumination in the Crossrail garden

Interactive: the Cosmic Radiophone plays the sound of the Big Bang
Reflected, Our Spectral Vision by Liz West

The White-Hat Sisters play Chopsticks

Back to the everyday ... rare is the Docklands tree without blue-lighting,
and what a difference it makes against the griddedness of everything else