Named after the 1986 Cocteau Twins track, “Lazy Calm” is produced in response to the altitude, silence, darkness, serenity, and atmosphere of Scotland’s hinterlands. This series of engulfing canopies is an immersive installation that draws quiet poetry of the Inner Hebrides, across now-uninhabited islands such as Eilean na Cloiche and Oronsay.
In a blur of blue, lilac, green, pink, and yellow filtered light, lightweight ripstop nylon canopies are suspended from the treeline, shaped and patterned to echo the petals of blue mountain avens, wildflowers, endemic to the Hebridean landscape. The canopy also reflects the rhythmic push and pull of the tides within the Sound of Mull.
“Lazy Calm” combines practicality with visual landscape sculpture, offering festival-goers respite from wet or sunny elements, and a rendering of an ethereal environment of blue and purple clouds and wildflowers that engulf you in the Hebrides.
