Another World 🌳🐝🪷

Commissioned for the 6th floor of The Museum of Modern Art as part of Another World: Family Festival, Deep Field is an immersive installation that invites audiences into a playful, multisensory environment where physical and digital worlds converge.

The space is grounded by tactile forms: soft sculptures inspired by granite formations shaped by volcanic forces in Langeac, France, and sprawling, hand-tufted rugs that map the aerial topologies of Australia’s desert landscapes—surfaces marked by fossils, geoglyphs, and deep time. Overhead, two kinetic inflatable sculptures float in space, their surfaces patterned with intricate lichen textures. These hybrid forms blur the boundaries between terrestrial, marine, animal, and plant life.

An integral part of the work is an augmented reality and sonic experience. Using a custom iPad Pro app, participants of all ages draw fantastical plant parts that bloom instantly into immersive 3D structures. Their growth echoes the mathematical patterns that appear in nature, from fractals to the Fibonacci sequence.

A multichannel soundscape by The Listening Planet evolves and shifts with audience movement. Layered with field recordings of endangered, extinct, and difficult-to-detect species, as well as meteorology sounds, melting glaciers, and the thrum of ant colonies, the composition ebbs and flows like earth’s ghosts—present and absent at once.

Together, the physical and digital components of Deep Field create an environment that is at once playful and reflective. It is a living system shaped by participation and collaboration, inviting visitors to imagine new ecologies, listen more closely, and inhabit the world with renewed wonder.