DARWIN FESTIVAL//2020
Botanicals is a projection-based public artwork developed through animated collage and site-responsive image-making. Projected onto civic architecture during Darwin Festival, the work brings botanical forms into relation with built surfaces, allowing texture, scale, and place to materially complete the image.
Rather than treating projection as a neutral display technology, the work stages projection as an inscriptive act. The projected image is transformed by the surface on which it lands, and the surface in turn is re-read through light, movement, and temporary occupation.
Documentation
Projection documentation/installation views/video/stills.
Research Relation
Within Meeting the Text Halfway, Botanicals is an important early articulation of the surface as an active participant in meaning-making. It demonstrates how projection operates as a between-surface: neither image nor support alone, but an encounter between light, material texture, architecture, and audience.
The work contributes to the project’s broader concern with inscription, translation, and the agency of surfaces. It shows how an image is never simply placed onto a surface, but completed through relation.
QR Relation
Section: Methodologies & Methods
Chapter: Meeting the Surface Halfway
Page: 34
Return to the document: This page documents the work referenced in the discussion of the surface as a site of encounter and projection.