Visitors step onto the escalator and immediately feel as though they’re leaving the ordinary world behind. The space becomes a luminous corridor of clouds, where colour, texture, and motion work together to dissolve the sense of architecture and replace it with something dreamlike. The colour changing LED light Installation used for people to arrive to wonderland coming up the escalators through clouds. A cloud‑filled, colour‑shifting arrival into “wonderland”. Using light as a theatrical element, and a procession of cumulus and nimbus clouds create a immersive, cinematic effect shaping it into something that feels transcendental. The perforated aluminium forms become canvases for shifting colour, creating a sense of weightless, breathing atmosphere.
Artist: Ruth McDermott and Ben Baxter
Date: 2024
Medium: LED light, perforated aluminium, cord and light control.
Dimensions: Five large cumulus 2m x 3m and three small nimbus 60cm.
Art Commission: Myer
Image credit: © Ross Honeysett
