LINDA DEMENT

From the deepest mud grows the most beautiful lotus.

Thic Nat Han

An interactive immersive environment for 360° projection & 16 channel sound.

In research, as in much of life, our hypotheses and ideas meet formidable material resistance when we try to make them real. More often than not, we fail. Again and again, our well-articulated theories collapse in wreckage. From that wreckage though, an authentic trajectory can reveal itself.

Bloom is an interactive environment of failure and success, built with images, microscopy and models from the Cardiovscaular Regeneration Group's research. Giant root systems draw from an underlying swamp of breakage, waste, infection and noise to feed delicate glowing molecules of success far above. If we venture close to those perfect molecules, they fall apart.