by Peter Appleton, located 1986, removed 1989
“Nine Evening Fireflies was my favourite piece. This consisted of nine tiny red-coloured lights set in a copse of Canadian Spruce trees in a very dark part of the forest opposite the Speech House. They were barely visible during the day, but at night seemed to be alive. Even though I knew that their anatomy consisted of a capacitor, a resistor and an i.c., in the dark I found them awesome.
The last time I was in the forest there were still four left, with their batteries having lasted three years. The men who sat on the bench in the Speech House claimed it was the beer that made you see them.”