Various Flora was a temporary installation that explores how transitional spaces or more specifically: gardens can be used as tools for visual and musical composition.

At the courtesy of the RISD Museum, I was invited to design an experience within the Radeke Garden, a tranquil terrace featuring local fauna and sculptures that responded to the space itself as well as the collections contained within the
museum. In response, I created custom software that generated generative video compositions of the flowers that both existed in the garden itself, and the Museum’s extensive Ukiyo-e prints. A new form of digital hybrid flora and fauna.

A series of musical compositions were created to be played as accompaniment to and input for the audio visual software. A small edition of tape cassettes were created for distribution.

The installation also included a series of interactive plaques installed within the garden beds. The plaques when scanned with a custom AR filter would reveal a series of 3D models of the “hybrid” flowers rendered from custom software.