Diane Maclean
Sculptor and Environmental Artist

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Between Two Worlds 2007

 

Light and sound on a night-time walk through the forest

Diane Maclean and Malcolm Innes with music by Bob Pegg and natural sounds
Commissioned by the Forestry Commission Scotland

The trail leads through recently planted and ancient forest, past the ruins of a sheiling, past a bare hillside once covered by trees of the Caledonian forest but now only the remains are whitened trunks of dead trees, through a gateway of trees, past a dry river bed and finally to the fairy lochan, the Lochan Uaine, where legends abound, and then back on newly created walkways through the heather covered glen.

Along the 3.5 km trail, light and sound interventions bring the forest to life, revealing the beauty of the forest at night, with reminders of former dwellers and their legends.

Photos by Mike Bolam, Gordon Gillespie and Will Boyd Wallis.

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Lighting through the depth of planted forest

Dead trees, individually lit, and music: Lament for the Dead Trees

A ring of sequenced lights ‘dances to fairy music’ round the base of a giant pine

Brilliant lights change colour through the gateway of trees, the entrance to ‘the other world’

150 metres of LEDs laid in a dry river bed make a River of Light

Lochan

Lights flicker through the dark wood and the cry of wolves is heard

A display of light and water plays on the surface of the lochan, accompanied by music depicting the legend of fairies who come to wash their clothes and a giant who marches through

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Lighting through the depth of planted forest

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