Basic Description
Sensor activated, made-from-waste forms that attempt to evoke a sense of mystery and character in what otherwise might seen as inanimate husk of matter.
Film

 

Concept and Background Thought

What is the relationship between the Ecological crisis and our day to day sensory experience of the world we inhabit? This is the question my work on the Doing module has grown out of, and will be explored in more depth in the Thinking module.

The central concept is that today the vast majority of those who inhabit the modern technological landscapes are victim of a perceptual crisis which, in the West, has its roots in Descartes’ mind-body split and in the emerge of a language whose written words (including these letters) are entirely divorced from the world they re-present.

The perceptual crisis has many other roots, but the belief in nature as an inert machine devoid of any sensitivity or sentience has become deeply entrenched in today’s western culture.

Do we have any chance of healing our conflicted relationship with the planet that grew us and continues to sustain us we continue to speak of the more than human community as a set of resources, devoid of any sensitivity or sentience?

Will these cardboard forms solve the crisis of perception? No. They are an early experiment in evoking a sense of intrigue and personality in discarded material salvaged from the city.