An Altar is Wherever You Kneel

Five-channel video installation, 2024

An Altar is Wherever You Kneel is a 5-channel video installation on sprituality and technology. It is a discovery of self, fields, invisible forces and shapes. The research begins with a study of value systems that demonstrate the power of spirituality and an introspection of a physical body navigating in a field of vows (愿力场), hybird or real. It slowly evolves to a constellation of work intersecting spiritual ideologies, system diagramming, and computer graphic techniques.

Exhibitions
Spirling Ashore, Parsons Design and Technology MFA Thesis Show, NY, 2024

Role
Visual Design, 3D Rendering, Creative Direction, Visual Programming
Medium
Acrylic, Metal, Projector, Wood, Transparent Film, Cotton, Jacquard Fabric

Dimension
70 x 30 x 60 inches

Tool
Cinema 4D, Zbrush, Unreal Engine 5, Mad Mapper, Photoshop, After Effects, Touch Designer Comfort UI (AI), Laser Cutting, 3D Mapping

Impetus

The Installation consisted of three parts:
1. Taxonomy of Prayer
2. Acrylic panels coated with special film with rear projection of a field of vows with aspicious forms rendered in UE5
3. An altar set-up with candles and transparent booklet with letters engraved — where audiences pray.

Installation View

Banner

Arcrylic Booklet

You’re standing in a field of vows.
Time and space are social constructs.
It’s anti-random, forward-moving.

Seeds of consciousness float in the air,
as we drift through space.
Slowly to stretch, to expand,
to find meanings, to connect,
to land on consensus.
Seeds sprout, the temporal is us.

“Did you confess today?”
A private, but collective;
intimate, but remote; messy, but direct ask.
A feedback loop we construct to construct ourselves.

To all hidden thoughts, unspoken tales,
and fleeting moments,
Our existence is a prayer.

Our body is not a body, our body is not ours.
Our body is not ours, our body is a network.
Our body is ours.

Close-up View

Video Installation

An on-site five-channel video installation, 3D mapped on five transprent acrylic panels, each coated with special film so that graphics are visible through the transparent surface.

Render

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