Light & weather report
Writing with light the passage of time
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About Transforming Skies
Light & weather report from London and Costa da Morte
Transforming Skies is an ongoing project that observes how light and weather transform the same horizon over time. From a fixed vantage point, each work keeps the land steady while the sky moves, like an enormous opera backdrop in constant motion. The 20% land and 80% sky framing turns the atmosphere into the main character, and the city, villages, mountains, and sea into witnesses.
The project currently focuses on two places connected by water and weather: London and the Costa da Morte in Galicia.
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London: When the Curtain Falls
Location: Landsdowne road, Hackney.
London – When the Curtain Falls – the City skyline was photographed from the same point between 2003 and 2004, a period when new towers like 30 St Mary Axe, Gherkin reshaped the horizon and caught changing light throughout the day and seasons. The images form a silent sequence of skies over a growing financial city, where clouds, fog, and sunbeams pass over cranes and office towers.
Costa da Morte: Os nosos ceos
Location: Miradoiro 38, Sofan.
On the Atlantic edge, – Os nosos ceos – extends this method into continuous 24/7 timelapse from December 2024 onwards. This coastline is known for its rugged seas, shipwreck histories, lighthouses, and fishing villages, a place where storms and currents have long defined both danger and identity. Here the frame from Sofan holds Carnota beach, Monte Pindo, and Cape Finisterre in the lower fifth of the image, while the remaining sky records passing fronts, fog banks, heat haze, nocturnal clouds, and rare phenomena such as auroras.
Weather and climate
Transforming Skies treats weather and climate as more than background; they are part of what some researchers call “weather‑heritage” – memories, practices, and stories linked to the feel of a place’s winds, rains, and seasonal changes. The project collects local voices, especially elders who grew up with particular rhythms of sea and sky, and weaves fragments of their memories into sound and text. Their accounts of storms, calm seas, night fishing, or childhood winters become as important as the images themselves.
Team
Sound artist composes long‑form soundscapes from local recordings – waves, rain, bells, animals – combined with voice‑over weather reports and fragments of interviews. These accompany the time‑lapse films, turning each 3‑minute day sequence and each 8‑day cycle into a layered experience of image, sound, and memory.
Texts for the weather reports and short tales linked to selected stills.
Photographs, moving images, and overall concept.
With your following
Transforming Skies will continue to grow in time and geography, adding new periods and possibly new locations while maintaining the same disciplined framing. It aims to build an evolving atlas of skies, where viewers can feel how climate, culture, and memory meet above a fixed line of land and sea. The project invites institutions, communities, and audiences to look up, listen to local voices, and recognise the sky not only as scenery, but as part of our shared cultural heritage.