Forest Light Installation

A real installation in Longleat Forest. I wheeled a fuel-powered generator and high-power projector into the forest and projected videos of shapes into the trees. The trees fragmented the shapes and created a completely new and surreal digital environment within the forest. ​ I wanted to explore how I could interrupt a natural organic landscape with strict logical geometric shapes. Geometric shapes are arguably the 'purest form', according to Malevich's Suprematism. I then decided that the 'purest form' of a (digital) image is the data it's made from, so I projected computer code into the trees. The trees looked as though they were grown from code, as though I had broken the universe and revealed some mathematic software it's ran on.