Context

Residual Resonance primarily draws upon the work of Matt Parker, specifically in the instance of his 3D sculpture / installation "Lumarca" [http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/29/4375614/practical-magic-lumarca-is-a-mesmerizing-3d-sculpture-made-of-string]. Lumarca is a similar projection and twine based display that splits the artist's projections into lines in a 3D plane. Our project uses a similar method to capture image, but instead leaves the strands of twine irregular and movable, should they be disturbed by a passing library goer.

Removed from the installation art sphere, the project was also inspired by two pieces of contemporary media: The transitional portals to the "Upside Down" in Netflix's incredible Stranger Things, and the process of discovering a fairy fountain in The Legend Of Zelda, a video game series developed and published by Nintendo. For the portals, we borrowed thematic inspiration from the qualities of the portals to the dimension known as the "upside down," which usually manifest as alien-like, thinly filmed and impossibly moving growths that suddenly appear over ordinary objects such as walls, similar to the effect our impossibly moving light display has from first glance, at the end of the book shelf aisle we placed it in.

As for fairy fountains, we wanted our space to borrow from their quality of spontaneous discovery. In the Zelda games proper, fairy fountains are usually discovered off the beaten path whilst you aren't looking for them. As such, they serve as surprising moments of achievement and respite, and we wanted to reward our patrons in the same way. There is a feeling of exclusivity incurred by such an event, as it is almost completely reliant on good fortune and it is unlikely to be expected before it is  actually encountered.