STRATUS LIFE IN GREEN EXHIBITION & ISSUE LAUNCH

Stratus Journal invited myself to join their team for the second year to help bring their newest issue launch event to life. As the Director of Installations, our team produced and built out interactive, site specific installations of all sizes to immerse visitors in the experience of ‘Life in green’. For an overview of the entire event, click here.

LIFE IN GREEN, gallery

“Life in Green brings together a photo gallery, interactive installations, 3D animations, projection work, and more. These works showcase the artists’ interactions and sensorial experiences with the natural world—one restlessly full of projects—rolling meadows, rivers, bird nests, and a variety of mushrooms. Each has its own trajectory, succession, beginning, end, and cycle.

Beyond the direct and sensorial, the works celebrate and confront the systemic essence of nature—generation, maintenance, adaptation, dynamism—these slow-moving processes have changed Earth on a time scale of millions of years and are juxtaposed by the episodic and contingent changes that have disrupted nature during the Anthropocene.

A critique raised by the artists is how human and artistic practices should fit into nature, particularly by engaging with the framework of sustainability—a word sometimes used as a green cloak draped over business as usual. How can human activity promote natural flourishing when nature already flourishes on its own? The artists present unique answers with reimagined forms of human activity which nourish the entire community of natural life on Earth.”

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THE MEADOWS, installation

Come along with Hektar into The Meadows. We’ll jump out of our desks into the garden. We’ll lay on the rolling hillside with the sun on our faces and music in our headphones. We’ll follow a creek to a mushroom patch and look up at the 100 year old trees that touch the clouds. 

The Meadows, which was an installation I worked more closely on, alongside Installations co-director Reem Almawed and guest artist Maya Candler,  is inspired by adventures in nature. The Meadow is an interactive installation that includes hand-made miniature dioramas and an AR experience accessed through the @stratus Instagram Filter ‘Life In Green/The Meadow’. The Meadow is an appreciation for our natural environment, no matter how big or small.

Working in collaboration with Reem Almawed and Maya Candler, I was able to assist in the creative direction and physical build out of the largest space activation - a turfed hillside where audiences were invited to burrow into and find whimsical stories in nature.

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