Thursday, May 21, 2009

environment for recreated reality -

the walls of the room slowly dissolve and fade into shadow, rustling whispers from amongst the darkness. Huge menacing shapes are glimpsed gliding, looming through the emerging dark forest setting, trees grow from tendrils of shadow writhing into existence, pulling at the hairs on the back of the viewers neck. Small creatures emerge from smoky ribbons, scuttling and slowly slipping through the rippled light and shadow, luminescent plants form sprouting light and mist which floats into small vortexes and the birth of radiant fireflies. Gradually the shadows draw closer dragging the grating sound of chains behind them, details emerge and disappear, briefly flickering into existence, components of the creatures, bindings, tags. The geared clockwork and networking veins of the trees. Robot limbs on the skittering critters. Genetic grafts on the skin of the plants , all carefully coded. As they flash back into obscurity the shadows grow overpoweringly close, warm breath onto the viewers skin, wrenching and paralyzing. Suddenly the shadows dissipate, vanishing as cute little cartoon versions of the imagined horrors playfully scamper into being.

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