Fake Moon
2008, Bigchill Festival

Fake Moon
Fake moon was a perplexing apparition in the night sky of an English landscape. Slowly rising behind the branches of the tree-lined horizon, an intense, diffuse ball of light began to illuminate the sky - casting long shadows across the grass. At first the apparition seems to be a familiar planet but the movement through the sky seems halting - the planet wobbling and jolting along its path.

Although the light was as bright, if not brighter than the moon it becomes clear that a rather deficient subterfuge is in process. The light, in fact, emanates from powerful filmmaking lights housed in 3m diameter helium balloon. Over the course of 3 hours the appirition gradually moves through the sky. The carefully mapped out path mimicing the arc of a true celestial body as it koves through the sky.