Adjacent

“Adjacent” 2022 4 x 2.5m interactive data projection.
We enter a darkened room. On the wall is a projection. We see a wall of entwined branching forms, lit by low light. These forms hang in space. They are not part of any plant. They are reminiscent of neurones yet where neurones are microscopic these forms are as large as your hand at the smallest, and metres wide as they vanish from the picture frame. We can see only those branches closest to us, the rest is lost in shadow. As we enter further into the room a faint light appears as if at an equal distance within the branches. It illuminates the complex structures around it, and as we move it moves with us, coming closer and then along the wall mirroring our movement. Other lights appear as other people enter the room behind us, each mirroring their actions. Our eyes are no longer limited by the wall of branches that border the space but reach deep into the thicket, searching its delicate complexity, its moving shadows and the lights that are created by others as they move.