Soft Array
Soft Array is a work creating a temporal interplay where past and future intersect with the present.
This installation examines the transient and impermanent nature of all things. It explores how forms shift and erode as they move between physical and digital states. The objects are of uncertain or low value, made of transformed consumer waste, discarded tree parts and industrial offcuts. Projections of the digitized objects reveal the limited and imperfect attention of the scanning process, a form of looking mediated by the constraints of the scanning device and conversion technology.
The work draws from the Chinese concepts of zhen and gong shi. The arrangement of translucent fabric in a maze form relates to zhen (陣), a spatial array and perceptual trap that activates upon entry. Here, zhen functions as a device that can shift the visitor’s state of mind. The objects were created and selected for their properties associated with gong shi (供石), scholar’s rocks and objects of contemplation.
Soft Array is a work creating a temporal interplay where past and future intersect with the present.
This installation examines the transient and impermanent nature of all things. It explores how forms shift and erode as they move between physical and digital states. The objects are of uncertain or low value, made of transformed consumer waste, discarded tree parts and industrial offcuts. Projections of the digitized objects reveal the limited and imperfect attention of the scanning process, a form of looking mediated by the constraints of the scanning device and conversion technology.
The work draws from the Chinese concepts of zhen and gong shi. The arrangement of translucent fabric in a maze form relates to zhen (陣), a spatial array and perceptual trap that activates upon entry. Here, zhen functions as a device that can shift the visitor’s state of mind. The objects were created and selected for their properties associated with gong shi (供石), scholar’s rocks and objects of contemplation.