Horizon Line Chamber
The Horizon Line Chamber is a dry-stone building featuring a camera obscura created by internationally known land artist Chris Drury. It is part of the series of Morecambe Bay Partnership's Headlands to Headspace arts commissions in Morecambe Bay, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. It was built by master stone mason Andrew Mason, strongly supported by the residents of the Point.
Horizon line chamber building progress
Horizon line chamber in the evening light
It is a conical stone chamber built mainly from hundreds of reclaimed building stones unearthed at Sunderland Point, the exception is the large supporting green-blue sandstone slabs imported from a quarry near Huddersfield. The sculpture resembles an upturned boat or oratory (small chapel) and holds a surprise inside. A self-contained lens inverts the outside world onto the chamber’s lime-plastered walls, capturing the sea and its changing conditions, our rich bird life, and the unique light of the Bay in a transformed perspective.
It was formally commissioned in the autumn of 2018 and completed at the end of March 2019.