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Trip the light fantastic, 2022

PLA, screen, looped video, floral laundry detergent


Framed against a fireplace, a large screen reflects its context displaying a fire-like, swirling cloud of particles. The particle cloud is coded to be audio-reactive, displacing and billowing at the recognition of voices and footsteps in the room.

Above, a looped video of a close-up shot blue eye, occasionally blinking, stares out from behind a frame, a recreation of an oculus window.

At the base of the screen lies an array of 3D printed objects, a variety of representations of flowers from diagrams to microscopic and life-size images. The vessels contain a pale pink fluid which on closer inspection is a floral laundry detergent, whose artificial smell fills the area.

Together the parts form a cyborg body. A being that is aware of your presence, that is alive, sensing and creating in reaction to its environment.

Shown at Chelsea College of Arts 2nd year show.