Crystallized Landscapes - London, UK. 2019
Installation (unbuilt)
With film as the primary medium (using footage shot by myself in Hawaii in 2018), this experimental project aims to present viewers a transformed, crystallized yet living landscape in its early stages of fossilization.
The concept was to explore material experimentation (glass and fibres) and applied geometry to create a filter membrane giving the film a crystallized algorithm aesthetic to form patterns resembling paintings of Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt.
The flexible set-up was illustrated in the submission in its most ambitious version, a 3-channel video projected from the back into a semi-circular screen at 16:9, triplicated horizontally. A corrugated transparent layer sitting approximately 0.5 meter from the projected screen would provide filter, generating the crystallized environment.
This work seeks to continue the exploration of traditional materials and geometries applied as lens to create visual distortion and geological patterns though a semi-analog experiment.