Forest Light Installation

  • Ella Chedburn

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.

Forest Light Installation by Ella Chedburn
Forest Light Installation by Ella Chedburn
Forest Light Installation by Ella Chedburn
Forest Light Installation by Ella Chedburn
Forest Light Installation by Ella Chedburn
Forest Light Installation by Ella Chedburn
Forest Light Installation by Ella Chedburn
Ella Chedburn
Visual Artist