projects
The Plastisphere: Squids
2022
Plastic, steel, LEDs, raspberry pis
with Gwen Law & Olivia Mackall
A tryptic installation that shows a material evolution of plastic bottles, light, and sound to depict garbage transforming into life. The Plastisphere narrates the story of oceanic animal life, forced to live and cohabitate in plastic garbage environments.
Gwen created the sculptures out of a variety of plastic bottles and caps, with some steel support. I wrote my own software in pygame which uses enhanced images of ocean life and displays them on the LEDs, with each of the three squids getting a unique set of images and settings to create its own personality and story. We installed approximately 300 LEDs in each piece. This will be a part of a larger installation.