00:10The Sun and the Moon is an exhibition celebrating all different aspects of the
00:15Sun and the Moon, these celestial constants that have been in our lives
00:19and throughout human history and what we're presenting to visitors is a whole
00:2424-hour journey through the eyes of artists and creators, all who have been
00:30inspired by the Sun and the Moon.
00:50Hi, I'm Margot Selby, I'm a woven textile artist and designer and this is the work that I've
00:58created. It's a multidisciplinary project that I worked alongside Helen Caddick, composer on.
01:05It's called Moon Landing and it sort of celebrates the women weavers that were part of the scientific
01:12development of the memory core and the circuit boards for the Apollo 11 moon landing.
01:20I've read somewhere that for every human being that's ever lived on the planet there's a star
01:24in our universe and I really, really love that idea. I was kind of imagining going up in the
01:29spaceship and my granny floating around and other people that I love being up there.
01:34The piece begins on the pitch B because Earth rotates at the note, the pitch B, Moon rotates
01:42at the pitch G sharp so when we first glimpse the Moon in the piece that's the first time we
01:47hear G sharp.
01:55This artwork is quite hard to explain by words. The best way is to be inside the space and we
02:05try to make
02:05this called cognitive like sculptures. Normally the sculpture is made by material, it's solid materials,
02:15but our sculpture is not. It's made by the environment and the light.
02:29So these are the eye protections that were one of the first eye protection existed coming from the
02:37Arctic. They were protecting eyes from the snow reflection since we have the winter for nine months.
02:45Sun reflects on the snow and it can burn the ice so you basically can't see anything which causes
02:52the snow blindness. I usually let people try them once because like people are curious that can you
02:58actually see from them but you actually can't see everything from even like tiny slits.
03:10It's one of four. I was doing like family archetypes, a mom and a dad, a sister and a brother.
03:16So this is
03:17the youngest child. And it's just about like mischievousness, playing at night because I ran away as a
03:25kid more than once. What? I ran away. Like I was missing for a few hours but you know I
03:31knew where I was at,
03:31no one else did. So this is kind of based on that as well as based on Romulus and Remus,
03:37the founders of Rome. It's like the adventure-ness of like that.
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04:24Transcription by CastingWords
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