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10 piece printed acrylic plates, 120 x 120 x 120 cm

This large format, light sculpture presents a point cloud of a microcosm of plants, enlarged 10x, sliced and printed onto 10 sheets of clear acrylic. The piece explores the symbiosis of plants and architecture and asks the question: what can happen when we leave space and relinquish our control of that space?

In Bondo, one community of plants growing from a space left in a drystone wall beside the Crotti was selected to be surveyed using an experimental approach of macro-photogrammetry.

The work explores the relationship between analogue and digital media, notably through its choice of output medium which creates an ephemeral illusion of 3 dimensions for the viewer. The translucent points lit from behind echo the sensation of sunlight shining through layers of plant leaves.

watch the video documentation

2024 a World between the Lines

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Grasspaper with plotted QR Code

The work “Digital Grass” is part of the work “Long Grass Grower”.

Long grass, complete with seed heads, was harvested and made into paper. A QR code was etched onto the paper with ink. The diversity of the grass is clearly visible on the textured surface of the paper. The grass paper acts as a portal to the digital world. When the viewer scans the QR code with their mobile phone, they are redirected to the Long Grass Grower web app. This app invites the viewer to participate in a meditation on planting long grass. Emptiness gives way to a joyful scene of a moving meadow. The more grass is planted, the more flowers appear, and eventually pollinators join the scene.

2023 Digi-Grass

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Pointcloud Animation

The work “1m2” is part of the series “Long grass grower”, which deals with the topic of biodiversity in everyday lawns.

Letting lawns grow freely instead of mowing them rigorously every week is a simple way to promote biodiversity of plant and animal species and create a healthy biome.

A 1 m2 lawn was left to grow freely for one month in summer. It was then digitally recorded. This digital capture formed the basis for an imaginary bee-eye animation.

The 360-degree view of the bee is projected spherically, evoking the idea of an entire world on just 1 m2. A world full of diversity, beauty and possibilities.

2023 1m²

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Performative LiDAR scan

The project “crowdsourced campfire” questions the notion of community and coming together in an age of digitisation where a “community" can be dispersed vastly in terms of space and time. What does it mean to come together digitally? What is the “fire"? The focal point?

A LiDAR Scanner was placed on a central position of the Theaterplatz, Chur. Members of the public were invited to participate in the creation of the spectacle by standing in a position and holding a pose while the scanner turns 360°. Once a position has been used it was marked with a triangular sticker, colored like sparks.

2022 Crowdsourced Campfire

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LiDAR scan

A LiDAR Scan of a canal joining back to the parent river at Sitterwerk St Gallen

2023 Canal

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LiDAR scan

An experimental self-portrait made by moving at laser speed around a LiDAR scanner

2021 Ring-a-Ring

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Pointcloud

Loch Salt, an upland bog landscape and resevoir in Co.Donegal. The tree-free terrain and remotness evokes false memories of the Swiss alpine passes.

2022 Loch Salt

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Generative Code

A code based harmonograph made as part of an exploration into generative graphics

2023 Harmonograph

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Wind powered pointcloud animation

Above the treeline the landscape, vegetation, settlement pattern and remoteness of the Safiental create a dreamlike memory of the ocean-beaten County of Donegal in Ireland. In both places man is put in stark juxtaposition with nature and as such must answer many existential questions. There is a sense of silence, of eternity.

In Donegal the harsh ocean wind creates a weather beaten landscape where gorse and Heather cling to an undulating rocky surface. In Safiental it is rather the altitude of the upper valley, spending many months under a thick blanket of snow, that produces a similar wilderness.

The project deals with a dreamlike imagining of two distant lands. The similarities lie in the visceral memory of the author and can be seen as a longing for home, for a memory of home in a new land. It is an attempt to share the experience and memory of the author with a wider group of people.

2023 A Fragment of Home

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Manipulated pointcloud

10 piece printed acrylic plates, 120 x 120 x 120 cm

In Bondo, one community of plants growing from a space left in a drystone wall beside the Crotti was selected to be surveyed using an experimental approach of macro-photogrammetry.

The work explores the relationship between analogue and digital media, notably through its choice of output medium which creates an ephemeral illusion of 3 dimensions for the viewer. The translucent points lit from behind echo the sensation of sunlight shining through layers of plant leaves.

watch the video documentation

2024 a World between the Lines

Grasspaper with plotted QR Code

The work “Digital Grass” is part of the work “Long Grass Grower”.

2023 Digi-Grass

Pointcloud Animation

The work “1m2” is part of the series “Long grass grower”, which deals with the topic of biodiversity in everyday lawns.

Letting lawns grow freely instead of mowing them rigorously every week is a simple way to promote biodiversity of plant and animal species and create a healthy biome.

A 1 m2 lawn was left to grow freely for one month in summer. It was then digitally recorded. This digital capture formed the basis for an imaginary bee-eye animation.

The 360-degree view of the bee is projected spherically, evoking the idea of an entire world on just 1 m2. A world full of diversity, beauty and possibilities.

2023 1m²

Performative LiDAR scan

The project “crowdsourced campfire” questions the notion of community and coming together in an age of digitisation where a “community" can be dispersed vastly in terms of space and time. What does it mean to come together digitally? What is the “fire"? The focal point?

2022 Crowdsourced Campfire

LiDAR scan

A LiDAR Scan of a canal joining back to the parent river at Sitterwerk St Gallen

2023 Canal

LiDAR scan

An experimental self-portrait made by moving at laser speed around a LiDAR scanner

2021 Ring-a-Ring

Pointcloud

Loch Salt, an upland bog landscape and resevoir in Co.Donegal. The tree-free terrain and remotness evokes false memories of the Swiss alpine passes.

2022 Loch Salt

Generative Code

A code based harmonograph made as part of an exploration into generative graphics

2023 Harmonograph

Wind powered pointcloud animation

In Donegal the harsh ocean wind creates a weather beaten landscape where gorse and Heather cling to an undulating rocky surface. In Safiental it is rather the altitude of the upper valley, spending many months under a thick blanket of snow, that produces a similar wilderness.

The project deals with a dreamlike imagining of two distant lands. The similarities lie in the visceral memory of the author and can be seen as a longing for home, for a memory of home in a new land. It is an attempt to share the experience and memory of the author with a wider group of people.

2023 A Fragment of Home

Manipulated pointcloud

2023 Sine Sign