Process

The installation was created by cutting hundreds of measures of twine and knotting them loosely to strands hanging parallel to the floor. We suspended the front of the hanging lattice with a shower curtain, and wrapped the back strands over a line of tape to allow for more give than a second bar, as we expected viewers to touch the installation despite our saying not to. Placed in front of one of the library's windows, the structure itself is then used as a backdrop for a looping projection animation found as a free sample on Vimeo. The windowed backdrop deletes the negative space in the projection, leaving only the parts of light that catch upon the hanging twine strands, creating the illusion of droplets of light materializing and lazily dropping in the air, and residual scattering of the animation's lighter parts creates an aurora-like effect that swirls in between and around the light droplets caught by the twine. The projector is mounted as non-obtrusively as possible to prevent it from drawing attention from the sculpture itself, so that when a viewer first happens upon it, the minimum distance in which they can do so prompts them to investigate to try and understand what they are seeing.