‘Into the Chainscape’ is a riff on the 2020 Light Festival theme of ‘Into the Dreamscape’, using ordinary and overlooked materials to create an experiential art installation. The design is a cube of silver ball-chains supported by a Unistrut frame. Over 11,000 lineal feet of chains are suspended in a dense grid, creating malleable lines and planes in an immersive environment bathed in blue light. A small room is created by the four columns, with cantilevered pinwheel beams highlighting the floating cube of suspended strands, defining space and reflecting light.

There are no pathways or other visual cues to enter the space and participants are encouraged to interact freely with the artwork to reach the center. Through deliberate or unwitting actions, the public becomes an active partner by the manipulation of the chains. The soft clacking of the balls and draping of the material provides auditory and tactile sensations adding to the heightened experience of the piece. When fully engaged the cube resembles a cobalt box of rain imbued with movement and sound, reverting to its pure vertical form when devoid of people.

Through the interplay of material, form and light, Chainscape provides a fluid environment to be explored and discovered; to experience a moment in a peculiar way, as if in a dream.