HOPES/FEARS - A Live Feed

Using local wind conditions as a barometer for the current socio-environmental climate.

Sitting between a tarot reading, a finger in the wind, true environmental change and doom-scrolling. Calm sunny days turning unexpectedly into a storm out of nowhere. Earth is unpredictable right now.

Hopes Fears Flag Noticeboard

How it works:

  1. The HOPES/FEARS flag gets raised.

  2. A live feed from the flag's nearest weather station is visually represented through the live HOPES/FEARS animation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the duration of the flag being raised.

  3. This can be viewed through using your camera on your smartphone to scan the QR code or by going to www.christopherjarratt.com/hopes-fears-live 

  4. The faster the wind, the faster the animation. Watch for a while for changes in conditions. Use it to find out what conditions are like in other villages, towns and cities.

  5. Every location that the flag is raised will be archived and continue to have a live feed animation so you can continue to check in on local socio-environmental conditions according to the wind.

  6. If you would like to raise HOPES/FEARS and add your live conditions to the project, email contact@christopherjarratt.com 

Powered by the wind, HOPES/FEARS is in-conversation with itself and simultaneously projecting its voice to the viewer both in person and online.

HOPES/FEARS looks to give a visual reading of the feelings and emotions we have been dealing with in recent years. In one moment everything seems possible, we have the ability to change, adapt, work together with the environment, communities, governments... and yet, in an instant, it all feels overwhelming, too far, out of reach. The yin and yang, opposite but interconnected forces. Hopes and Fears. 

Animation

I was invited by artist and curator Kate Genever to be part of ‘The Notice Board’ showcasing international artists work on a Notice Board and Flag Pole in Uffington, Lincolnshire. UK.
Curated to the theme “The land of the free?”. Located in Kate’s front garden, it features an A1 size display case and a 6m flag pole.
Those invited show for one month and their exhibitions are archived @noticeboardunited and HERE.

The HOPES/FEARS flag will be raised from 15th August - 15th September 2025 as part of The Notice Board project. The above gif animation speeds up and down through a live feed of the wind at the flags nearest wind meter (Wittering Airfield).

A big thank you to Daniel Mortensen for building and writing the code to allow the artwork to be in realtime conversation with the weather station.