Installations2020shown

DOME THE PORTAL

Hand-drawn line folded into mandalas, projected across a timber dome

A large plywood geodesic dome standing in a white gallery at night, its curved door panel swung open onto blue projected light inside

The dome's tall arched doorway seen close, warm plywood ribs framing a dark blue interior scattered with drawn white line — Plywood outside, projection inside

A visitor in silhouette walking across the dome floor, the projector's flare at their feet and a pale mandala filling the shell behind them — A visitor walks in

Three figures in silhouette standing under a blue eight-fold mandala that covers the whole curved wall — The shell has no front, the image runs all the way round

Two people seen from behind in deep blue light, one pointing up at a ring of drawn flowers and wire triangles overhead — Looking up, 9 September 2020

A symmetrical burst of white and gold line radiating from a small jewelled centre, a figure crouched dark at the lower edge — One drawn line, mirrored eight ways

A geodesic dome of cut plywood ribs and panels, big enough to walk into. The inside face is the screen. A projector sits on the floor by the entrance and throws the image up across the whole shell, 360 degree semisphere projection mapping, no front and no frame.

A large gold star of thick painted line over cyan scribble, a person's shoulder and head passing dark through the beam — Gold over cyan

A silhouetted figure reaching one arm up into a dense blue field of mirrored drawing — Reaching into the beam

An open hand held up against a projected cyan grid of wire triangles and small orange lozenges — A hand in the grid

Two hands raised together inside a large white projected shape, their shadow spreading like wings across the dome — Hands, and the shadow they make

A hand open in the projector beam, the drawn line painting itself across the skin in yellow and white — The drawing lands on the skin

What plays inside is his own drawn line, folded. White and yellow scribble, cyan wire triangles, orange filaments, mirrored eight ways into slow mandalas. In his words: "The visual aspect of 'Dome the Portal - Inside your soul' is a metamorphosis of the project 'YOU ARE IMMERSIVE'. To get this result the project got through several advanced softwares such as After Effects, Unity and Smode."

An arm lifted into a loose yellow scribble of light, blue filaments trailing behind it across the curved wall — Yellow line, 10 September 2020

A radial mandala of drawn line on near-black, with a glowing red-orange octagon at its centre and rings of blue and gold detail around it — Fulldome master, what the projector was fed

An eight-pointed star of gold and white line on near-black, its arms filled with drawn triangles and loops — Eight-fold symmetry from a single drawn line

A mandala built around a bright yellow and white wheel at centre, with gold spokes radiating into blue wire triangles — Fulldome master, 2160 × 2160

An eight-petal flower drawn in orange and pale blue outline, set in a dense field of cyan wire triangles — A frame from the loop that played inside

Shown at the Immensiva Festival, Espronceda, Barcelona, in September 2020. The photographs here are from two nights, the empty dome after midnight on 6 September, and the visitor nights of 9 and 10 September, when people walked in, tipped their heads back and put their hands into the beam. It was the studio's first architectural projection, and the work the later immersive pieces grew out of.

Medium: 360° semisphere projection mapping, timber geodesic dome
Materials: Plywood ribs and panels, Video projection, After Effects, Unity, Smode
Dimensions: Walk-in dome; fulldome masters 2160 x 2160 px
Role: Artist
Exhibited: Immensiva Festival, Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture, Barcelona, 2020

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