yesterday’s sky
sculpture | performance
2017 - ongoing
sculpture | performance
2017 - ongoing
The icon-kites are flown in the sky within a
particular context defined by the user. The kite becomes “charged” through its engagement with
the environment. As artificial and natural backdrops collide, mutliple readings ensue. Passive bystanders become active participants in the translation process as they capture images on their smartphones. The Incongruity of the digital icon against a natural setting heightens the tension of the piece.
Once airborne, the icon kites are re-digitized, opening up a secondary reading as they are captured by smartphones. Bystanders with their cameras are able to frame their environments relative to the position of the kite, an interaction that calls into question elements borrowed from traditional landscape painting- particularly the concepts of background, foreground, and middle ground. A digital icon in the sky has the uncanny effect of collapsing space because it playfully reduces the environment to an interface system. The sky becomes a GUI (graphical user interface), with the icon kite acting as the cursor, and the wind as a contingent factor; something akin to an interface within an interface.
Once airborne, the icon kites are re-digitized, opening up a secondary reading as they are captured by smartphones. Bystanders with their cameras are able to frame their environments relative to the position of the kite, an interaction that calls into question elements borrowed from traditional landscape painting- particularly the concepts of background, foreground, and middle ground. A digital icon in the sky has the uncanny effect of collapsing space because it playfully reduces the environment to an interface system. The sky becomes a GUI (graphical user interface), with the icon kite acting as the cursor, and the wind as a contingent factor; something akin to an interface within an interface.