SAM Lights is an annual Seattle Art Museum event and the one night a year that the grounds of the Olympic Sculpture Park are opened to the public in the evening hours.
It is intended to bring the public out into the natural world in the midst of the winter: to marvel, to delight and to see anew, how light can transform an environment.
For this night, I brought the technical experience of Marcel Marias to projection map the video I had collected into one of my pieces. The piece was in a grove of trees with a meandering path so could be walked beside from two different sides, laid under and seen from the roadway below and from the gallery across the park. The piece was designed so that ones experience would shift depending on where one stood and the projection responded to the sound element and the voices that interacted with the piece.
Image of the installation from the street side.
This image is taken from the meandering path side. Public members could choose to walk on either side of the piece or lay under.
This was the piece during the daylight hours. In a permanent installation it would reflect the changing light conditions and weather, casting shadows that shifted and moving physically with the wind.
Close up detail of the projection imagery
A short video of various segments of "In Visible Currents".
Video edited by Scott Keva James.