Jacket foundations at Leith inspire living community art project
Inch Cape’s yellow jacket foundations at the Port of Leith have been the motivation for a new community art project in progress called Yellow Towers, which invites input from anyone who has been inspired by the components.
With their bright yellow colour and height of up to 91 metres, they have been hard to miss from all around Edinburgh and across the Firth of Forth in Fife, but they are especially visible from neighbouring Leith.
Something about the three-legged lattice structures has captured people’s imaginations and inspired photographers, artists, writers and film-makers to create their own records and interpretations of their presence.
To gather all this creativity in one place, local writer Christina Neuwirth and comics artist Maria Stoian have led a project aptly named – Yellow Towers – inviting contributions from all who would like to submit their work featuring the jacket foundations.
The Inch Cape project team has been genuinely delighted with the reception the jacket foundations have received and is truly awed at the creative ways they have been portrayed. It has been hugely positive to find out what they have meant to the individuals who encounter them on a daily or regular basis.
The jacket foundations will form the base for 18 of Inch Cape’s 72 offshore wind turbines once installed at the project’s North Sea site. Thirteen are 83 metres tall and five are 91 metres tall, and all weigh between 2050 and 2250 tonnes, depending on the specifics of their intended seabed location.
Currently around100 people are working at the site to carry out completions and marshalling work to ready them for installation offshore by heavy lift vessel Seaway Alfa Lift.
The components will be leaving the Port of Leith over the coming months and into the new year, but the Yellow Towers contributors will ensure they are not forgotten, in one creative way or another.
