Artworks

Medium and materials: humidity and temperature, plant, soil, water, sunlight

Technology: Arduino + DHT22 sensor (humidity and temperature data), OpenFrameworks for real-time sound and visualization

This ongoing experiment translates environmental data from a living plant into generative sound and motion graphics. Variations in light, humidity, and temperature produce shifting tones and rhythms, allowing the environment to “compose” its own score. The work explores how technology can serve as a translator of ecological intelligence, revealing patterns of communication between living systems and digital interpretation.

Through this prototype, I have become increasingly aware of the energetic and material footprint of the tools that make such translation possible. This insight opens a critical inquiry for my next phase of research: how to design low-power, biodegradable, or repairable interfaces that minimize waste while maintaining sensory richness. The project thus becomes both an artwork and a test site for rethinking technology’s role within regenerative ecosystems.

Materials: gelatin, glycerin, sodium propionate, and blue food pigment.

This biopolymer sculpture explores the fluid boundary between organic and synthetic matter. Created through a process of controlled heating, cooling, and spontaneous deformation, the material retains a fragile translucency that evokes marine membranes and vegetal tissues. As it dries, it bends and curls into unpredictable forms, embodying both growth and decay in a single gesture.

While I have long worked with fabrics, paper, water-based media, found objects, and technology, Translucent Organism marked a turning point in my practice: the beginning of my research into biomaterials as regenerative living archives, translating laboratory learning into a sensory meditation on ecological temporality, fragility, and care.