This morning I awoke just after six o'clock. In the silence, a blackbird was singing in a tree near the back garden, clear and beautiful. Just one bird song. Forty years ago, the dawn chorus here was so intense that one could hardly distinguish one bird song from another, and there was a diversity of ... Read more

When Rhea creates light art, she never knows what will appear for it is a very spontaneous process. She was most surprised, for example, to see what looks like a face appear in the light image below. In 2018 Kip Loades joined Rhea in her studio to film light art. For most of the time ... Read more

Doctor Steve Zhang works at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge, designing porous crystals for the chiral drug separation process. He is also very interested in crystallography, which is a branch of science that deals with determining the arrangement and bonding of atoms in crystalline solids, in order to study their ... Read more

Dear friends of the Dance of Light project. We wish you a Happy New Year as we move through the darkness and towards the growing light in the Northern hemisphere. This water colour sketch was painted in the high Alps of Switzerland, a place of great inspiration for Rhea Quien, director of Dance of Light. ... Read more