St Mary's Allotment Sculpture Trail

September 2020

The Evolution series were installations of carefully arranged objects reminiscent of museum collections. They resembled organic fossilised forms or dried seeds that seemed to evolve in shape and size. The viewer may have found some echoes of these shapes in the allotments – a dead flower head, a twisted piece of string, the husk of a fruit. Another source of inspiration for this work for the artist was the joy of ‘mud larking’ – the finding of discarded objects in the river mud or low tide.

 

Together with the physical artworks was an installation of the Spinner series which were conceived as virtual sculptures. The viewer was instructed to scan a QR code with their iPhone in order to display a web link. Tapping on that link downloaded the augmented reality (AR) sculpture. Once it was loaded the viewer could place, scale and rotate the sculpture using the usual IOS pinch and zoom 2 finger gestures. The AR sculptures were organic, seed-like forms that the viewer could move around in real time within the allotment environment.

St Mary's Allotment Sculpture Trail

September 2020

The Evolution series were installations of carefully arranged objects reminiscent of museum collections. They resembled organic fossilised forms or dried seeds that seemed to evolve in shape and size. The viewer may have found some echoes of these shapes in the allotments – a dead flower head, a twisted piece of string, the husk of a fruit. Another source of inspiration for this work for the artist was the joy of ‘mud larking’ – the finding of discarded objects in the river mud or low tide.

 

Together with the physical artworks was an installation of the Spinner series which were conceived as virtual sculptures. The viewer was instructed to scan a QR code with their iPhone in order to display a web link. Tapping on that link downloaded the augmented reality (AR) sculpture. Once it was loaded the viewer could place, scale and rotate the sculpture using the usual IOS pinch and zoom 2 finger gestures. The AR sculptures were organic, seed-like forms that the viewer could move around in real time within the allotment environment.

St Mary's Allotment Sculpture Trail - September 2020

The Evolution series were installations of carefully arranged objects reminiscent of museum collections. They resembled organic fossilised forms or dried seeds that seemed to evolve in shape and size. The viewer may have found some echoes of these shapes in the allotments – a dead flower head, a twisted piece of string, the husk of a fruit. Another source of inspiration for this work for the artist was the joy of ‘mud larking’ – the finding of discarded objects in the river mud or low tide.

 

Together with the physical artworks was an installation of the Spinner series which were conceived as virtual sculptures. The viewer was instructed to scan a QR code with their iPhone in order to display a web link. Tapping on that link downloaded the augmented reality (AR) sculpture. Once it was loaded the viewer could place, scale and rotate the sculpture using the usual IOS pinch and zoom 2 finger gestures. The AR sculptures were organic, seed-like forms that the viewer could move around in real time within the allotment environment.