Langlands & Bell
Frozen Sky   1999

Digitally controlled neon sculpture

Digital neon & electronic components, wood, powder coated aluminium frame

225 x 225 x 15cm

Frozen Sky is a sculpture of moving neon. The 45 three letter acronyms are the codes used by the air transport authorities to identify international destinations around the world.

Frozen Sky is a constellation of the worlds urban centres. Travel and communication, space and time, present and future, movement and light: a non-fiction abstraction mapping the persistent transience of contemporary urban life.

Frozen Sky is a poetry of places in a global network, where landing points offer departures into the imaginary, where human activity is explored through the places and structures we inhabit, and the routes that penetrate and link them.