The late fabric and furniture designer Mary Vinson used to keep chickens around the home she shared with Island Records founder Chris Blackwell. They wandered freely everywhere, much to the exasperation of their gardener. Vinson told me she kept them because she "liked to see things moving out of the corner of her eyes." For her, motion kept her home alive. 

Designer Tom Cecil's Field of Lights, picture above, is an installation created for 100% Design at the London Design Festival that creates motion out of our own movements. The winning entry in 100% Design's Hidden Art competition, Field of Lights consists of over 200 motion sensitive LEDs suspended above head height that create patterns of light which follow people as they move below. It'll be suspended over a selection of Cecil's past work on display at the Earl's Court exhibition and will trace the patterns of visitors passing through. Kind of like an indoor version of Walter De Maria's brilliant The Lightning Field. 

Much like Paul Cocksedge, Tom Cecil has a playful fascination with science and technlogy. In a similar way to Field of Lights, his installation What We Left Behind involved using a liquid that, when exposed to flourescent light, showed memory-like traces of where people had been. 

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