Temporal Jungle
For Sweet Tooth Hotels’s Summer 2020 installation, “Intangible” in collaboration with the Craft Yarn Council. Shot by TAVisuals.
Temporal Jungle is an immersive habitat for the dualities that exist within the in/tangible forces of memory. A weaving together of childhood memory and grown-up narratives, this optical illusory installation plays with our growth into adulthood and its impact on our perspectives of past experience. Is what we remember truly our own experience, or that of someone else?
This installation shape-shifts an integral part of memory storage, the temporal lobe, into the childhood memory of a jungle gym. Temporal Jungle is a push and pull between the real and the illusory, the tactile and the visual. Recognizable and nostalgic objects juxtapose with sexual innuendos and adult-like content. Geometry, color trickery, and texture form an intangible op-art backdrop for a tangible jungle gym. Temporal Jungle is a community experience of memory, dreams and fantasy. A playground that encourages us to play with what we see, what we remember, and what is really there.
A big thanks to my collaborator Mark Muldrow for his structural design. Yarn donation from Lion Brand and Red Heart Yarnspirations.
Photo by Rachel Matthews and Macey May of The Funk Ship
In Progress shots:
