Underneath the abandoned Victorian cast iron canopies Claire Morgan suspended hundreds of pieces of shattered glass to make five separate forms.
These cascades of glass created a shimmering presence which, from certain viewpoints, would coalesce to imply the almost ghostlike shape of a human figure. The mood of Shift changed throughout the day. In sunlight the transparent nature of glass and nylon filament would cause the work to almost disappear but at the same time the sound of the glass pieces moving against each other in the breeze caused its presence to be felt throughout the station, to be heard if not seen. At dusk, as night time embraced Tynemouth, two artificial light sources came into play, triggered by trains arriving at the station. For a few minutes ‘Shift’ would be bathed in light, transforming the abandoned platform.
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