Meet Luke Jerram – the man bringing the sun to Cork this summer (but only indoors!)
When the sun comes out, most people put on their shades. Luke Jerram is different. When the English artist looked up at the sun, he wanted to get closer to it. The result is his dazzling new artwork, Helios. 'Helios is an artwork which provides an opportunity to see the sun up close,' he says. 'The sun artwork took about eight months to create and it's created out of 40,000 photographs of the surface of the sun. It shows all the sunspots and filaments and all these lovely details of the sun that we can't ordinarily see because, obviously, we're not allowed to look at the sun up close.'
We are talking on Zoom and he smiles broadly as he tells me about Helios, which opens at St Fin Barre's Cathedral on June 9 as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. 'If you think about it scientifically but also culturally, the sun is a light and energy source for life on our planet,' he continues. 'It has inspired music and religions and culture and poetry, in every literature and every culture all around the world. So it has that sort of universal appeal.
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