Light box, lighting & loudspeaker designs developed for an unrealised large scale project along a Heathrow Airport arrivals Pier with travelators.

For Heathrow is a detailed proposal commissioned by the Public Art Development Trust (London) in 1994. The proposal describes the division of 620 metres (over one-third of a mile) of corridor space into three sectors, colour-coded by modifications to the internal lighting system. Large light boxes containing hybridised plant forms inhabit the centre of each sector, and two soundtracks alternate along the passages.

The upper floor 'air-side' space of Victor Pier, Terminal 4, has a peculiar status in the traveller's itinerary, being between air and land, and on the boundary between exclusion and entry to a new country. For Heathrow suggested ways to engage the traveller sympathetically, yet carried a subtext of strangeness reflecting the 'unnaturalness' of flight, and the status of a romanticised Nature in the type of semi-public domain epitomised by the airport: one which is highly regulated by national and corporate interests empowered through technology.

Originally, impetus to commission a proposal came partly in response to the complaints of Transatlantic travellers confronted by a long, boring walk after a long flight. The complaints subsided during the course of developing the artwork, and new management at Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 decided that the 'business case' for the project could no longer be argued.