inland-in-finland, by kaya barry

------ inland-in-finland ----------------------------
creative documentation by kaya barry

--------- exhibition: Arteles Live Review 28/08/15 --------------------------

The installation is a site-specific explorations of sensing movement.

In the forest things are moving together, growing together, in and around each other. Each step pushes one movement into another. Like a trigger for movement, or perhaps a proposition set in motion.

I walk around to attune to the sensing of movements of the sticks, grass, moss, rocks, trees, wind, light, pressure, and balance.

I then intertwine the surveying flagging tape through where I felt a movement trigger the next. This might be the pressure of my shoe against a rock, a stick breaking, or leaves settling as the wind eases.

I photograph, sketch, and diagram the process. The result is a series of experiments across an array of media: diagrams of surveying tape, interactive installation, and photographic time-lapse documentation.

Above: detail view of interactive projection. A track pad moves the images. Panoramic forest scenes move with-and-against dizzying stop-motion images of walking on the forest floor.

Visitors are invited to walk along the path of sticks. As people walk, the sticks break, movements are dispersed, and the installation shifts, adjusts, and re-settles.

Field sketches, flagging tape, finnish graph paper, mounted on A5 card.