Monday 23 January is considered the most depressing day of the year.
For one day and one day only an installation by art collective Greyworld that replicates the effects of the sun will be raised by crane 56m high above Trafalgar Square, the installation gives off more than four million lumens of light – the equivalent of 260,000 lightbulbs, to brightening up a cold, dark winter day.
The Trafalgar Sun has taken six months to create, will be 30,000 times bigger than a football and weigh over 2,500kgs (two and a half tons!). The sun will rise an hour early at 6.51am and set at 7.33pm, extending the daylight in Trafalgar Square by two hours.
The Trafalgar Sun, Trafalgar Square, London, from 5.57am until 7.33pm on Monday 23rd January
