Recycled neon, mirror  

With thanks to Cole’s Neon, Jack Flash Electrical and Neon Services and Chris Bold. 

Auroras create colourful ribbons of light in the nighttime sky. They appear when the sun blasts solar flares into the atmosphere and the solar flares ignite gases like oxygen and nitrogen. Neon also works because electricity ignites different gases to create the colours you see.   

This work invites you to bask in the light of Shimmering Aurora and see yourself reflected. We are all part of this amazing universe. If you listen carefully to the sound in the gallery Tracing Time by Philip Samartzis, you might hear sounds that happen in the atmosphere when an Aurora is rippling through the sky. Listen carefully, can you hear the Aurora?