Skinnarviksparken

After making several interviews with passersby in Skinnarviksparken, I came to the conclusion that the darkness in combination to the distance to the lit up street at the end of the park, was what evoked the greatest fear. Therefore I decided to make a bright light installment in the centre of the park.

It works like this. If you are walking through the park, and you hear that there is group of drunk and rowdy people in the dark areas (I have illustrated the skinheads as pearls with swastikas on them) then you know that there is a light right in the centre of the park that you can run to. When you get there, you place your hands on the head and say the word saviour. The light is activated by this word and is turned on into a bright light spherical cloud that lights up the whole park. People that are doing something they know is wrong, usually like to sit in the dark, and the worst thing they know is having light shown upon them. This is the "saviour" light. The light is on for 15 seconds which is enough time to get the end of the park. Also when youa re sitting in the dark and a bright light comes on, it usually takes almost 10 seconds or more before your eyes get used to the light source. This also gives the escapee comfort as you then know that the people in the dark cannot see where you are headed for several seconds at least.

This light is in the shape of a shaved head, as in the diagram and is about 1,5 meters tall. The base of the light source is a heavy iron cylinder, so that it cannot be moved or kicked down. The light itself, when it is not turned on, is in a semi-transparant material possibly pyrexglass. Also so that it cannot be broken. The main light source itself comes through the top of the head the rounded circular area, and therefore creates the spherical light up feeling. Where the eyes are is where the voice activators are located, and they are strong enough to register even a whisper of the word "saviour".