Arboreal
Featured at Grad Ex 109, May 1-5
Arboreal is an interactive installation that is presented as a 2-dimensional organism growing from a once living, 3-dimensional form. The installation suggests a reimagined and abstracted view of a forest, generating a flourishing canopy akin to a weeping willow. Utilizing sound and movement through animation, Arboreal transforms a windowless, indoor space into an organic and familiar environment through physical representations of nature and the cross pollination between living entities, synthetic fibers and technology.
Similarly to all living things, the installation is only temporary and will not take the exact same shape when reinstalled. However, the hybridity of the looped animation, the preserved tree branches and synthetic yarn creates an evergreen environment that can never truly die. The installation is meant to allure, inviting viewers to explore the vibrant, luminous colours and images casted from the digital animations as they breathe amongst the branches, as well as feeling transported to a forest, they want to get lost in. The animation provides a harmonic segue into showing the natural progression between each iteration: from a small analogue collage to a printed cut-out cocoon of the digital collage and the scaled-up projected installation.
Viewers are welcomed to live amongst the trees.
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