Tezos

Displanted Presence

Creator

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Description

Life 6000 feet above sea level can be harsh, and the shade of a rock can provide shelter for many things. For hundreds or thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years this rock has been sitting near a trail in the hills around Boulder Colorado, hosting lichens on its surface, plants around the edges, and creatures beneath. A single Tufted Evening Primrose is flowering, with older blooms turning pink and wilting nearby. Each flower only blooms for about 30 hours, attracting Hawk Moths at dawn and sunset. All the pieces of this ecosystem are carefully tuned for this elevation, including thin air, intense sunlight, and little moisture. Via Augmented Reality (AR), this bit of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains can be placed anywhere using a mobile device. It might blend into some landscapes and stick out in others, but it will never be real, and cannot be truly displanted without destruction. The metallic cage attempts to visually contain and separate the digital object from reality, all while AR players found in Apple products will try to reflect reality on the cage itself, adapting ever so flighty into the new environment. I captured this boulder and surrounding ecosystem using photogrammetry, where hundreds of photographs become a digital 3D form. It is a poor simulation, a computer illusion using sensors and algorithms to make something appear on our screens, suggesting a different reality from the one in front of us. Perhaps bringing this down from the mountains and around the world to a place like Venice which is sometimes even below the sea, there is a moment of hope, letting the rock and the flowers drink from the ocean.

Traits

Tag

nature

Tag

3dscan