I came across this panorama by Kate Lockhart by accident.  It was one of those ‘three-degree of separation’ moments (even more startling than the effort of finding the sixth). About six years ago, I had the privilege of working for the team who created the new head office building for Barclays.  They moved 5,000 people from several buildings in the City down to Canary Wharf and I was given the responsibility of creating an art programme for the new head office.  The centre piece was a commission by british sculptor Tony Cragg, but we also commissioned four brilliant photographers to work on various corridor and meeting room spaces.  The Barclays office is about six-hundred thousand square feet, so we needed scale: lots of scale!  One of the photographers Ian-James Wood created a whole series of ‘Landmarks’ from around the UK.  Worth a look around if you ever get a chance to go to what remains a pretty smart workspace.  Other artists commissioned included; Dominic Pote, American visual arts genius [not used lightly] Christina McPhee and a very innovative German photo-artist called Manuela Hofer.  Worth a browse if you get the chance.  The second spooky link came a couple of years ago when I walked into the office of a misanthropic, but brilliant, investment guy in Hong Kong, overlooking the harbour.  There on the walls, at appropriately brilliant scale:  Manuela’s pictures of Milan and Barcelona.  Anyway, back to Kate’s panorama.  I found Kate’s St Paul’s commission when researching a screenplay I am writing about a nineteenth century artist Thomas Horner.  The project is fascinating, based in time one hundred years before cinema when panoramic art was “all the rage”.  The story has been ingrained in my mind for months, but the progress slower than I hoped in getting the draft thumped into the keyboard.  Then I came across Kate’s stunning picture.  360 degrees of London from what was for many hundreds of years just about the highest man-made vantage point in the world.  Wonderful and inspiring and some needed impetus to get the screenplay finished.  I believe Kate’s picture is for sale.  We will take the panorama project to Cannes in May 2011.  More to follow at Wave Your Arms.