A colour-changing giant dandelion rises on recycled-steel stems in Blackpool, each bloom frozen in the instant its seeds lift on the wind. Spanning over 3 metres tall, it glimmers with hundreds of fibre optic filaments that flare, cascade and dim in response to passing voices, turning whispers into visible breath. Depending on what you say and how you say it the dandelion replies with light. Like airborne parachutes, the fibre-fine wires shimmer with light, echoing the energy of unseen exchanges and the quiet power of collective action.
The sculpture is intentionally weathered: seed-heads slightly ragged, stalks scuffed, capturing a plant past its peak yet brimming with latent promise. The dandelion is not pristine, but one past its prime. It reminds us that sustainability lies in understanding cycles of change and renewal, and that even in decay, there is potential for regeneration. This transient sculpture acts as a silent plea: the future we ‘seed’ depends on the choices we make today. Play beneath the luminous canopy and watch colours shift in response to your voice.
Every laugh, chant or quiet conversation triggers different concentric ripples of colour that pass from one bloom to the next depending on the wishes we make and the words we use, revealing our intertwined presence like rings on water. Associated school workshops extend the experience beyond the site and each child takes home a handmade wildflower pod to scatter and nurture, learning how art, ecology and everyday action can grow together. Through these small acts, the sculpture’s spirit takes root in real soil and shared stories, mapping an invisible network of future blossoms across Blackpool and beyond.
The Wish is both beacon and plea: the future we seed depends on the choices we voice today. Let your voice plant the seeds of tomorrow.
A Lightpool commission 2025
Amy Jackson is a multidisciplinary artist and sustainability specialist whose practice fuses philosophy, science and technology to create immersive, data-driven works in galleries, public spaces and unconventional sites. A first-class Fine Art graduate of the University of Oxford, and an alumna of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, where she studied Sustainable Finance, Jackson integrates sculpture,, community engagement and participatory storytelling to expose the interwoven crises of climate change, conflict and mental health.
Over the past 17 years she has delivered projects ranging from street interventions and installations to data visualisations and living sculptures. Public commissions include Living London for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Untouchable for The Ken Griffiths Bureau, while her curatorial credits span the 60th Venice Biennale and Miami Art Week. Her works are held by the Sainsbury Centre, Oxford University Press and private collections worldwide.
Parallel to her studio practice Jackson is chief sustainability officer for London’s £50bn local government pension pool. She has written for the Prince of Wales’ International Sustainability Unit, appeared on Financial Times Live, The Economist Sustainability Week, and lectured at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
Honoured with awards in both art and finance and once Big Brother’s resident Conceptual Artist, Jackson consistently transforms sites into multisensory environments that invite diverse audiences to question, co-create and act. As an active member of the Gallery Climate Coalition and signatory to the Make EU Blue pledge, environmentalism and social justice are embedded in everything she creates.
