The sculpture of a giant head that looks out over the Thames and during the night its color depending on the mood of the viewer changes, is the newest attraction on London’s trendy South Bank.
The factory “Head Above Water” (head above water), by furniture and lighting designer Steuart Padwick is to promote awareness of mental health issues. The work was installed on the occasion of the London Design Fair, which opened on Saturday. Padwick, said that the lighting of its Nine-Meter sculpture could switch, “to show the moods of the brain: Happy, sad, happy”.
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People could enter via a Twitter Feed with the darkness and illuminated head and Express how you feel.
The giant head – “Head Above Water” is made of wood
Of the Organisation for mental health “Time To Change”, which supports the project, it was said, the work aims, “the debate about the stigma of mental illness, to stimulate”. The head was a Symbol of hope, bravery and compassion.
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