Biomorph Architectural Sculpture
Biomorph charts the journey from a first inkling of life, down a winding path towards complexity, sentience and an imaginary fusion of organic life and technology. Installed in the large stairwell of a Brisbane home, Biomorph is a wall-mounted sculpture that wraps around three broad walls. At the centre of the stairwell is a glass sided elevator. The artwork can be seen from many vantages on the stairs, and from the elevator as you move between floors.
A symbolic organism, merged with its technology, evolves towards an unknown future. Biomorph’s glowing blood is monitored; its sentience snapshot in a computer chip; and its pressure read. As you pass by on the stairs, Biomorph knows you are present and responds to you with a pulsing array of embedded LED lighting. Bud-lamps glow and protocells pulse and chase with a heartbeat rhythm.
A forest of laminated timber blades grow in size from newly sprouted, to fully fledged at over 2.3m in height, creating a cathedral like effect above you. The blades sprout forth from glowing red protocells that emerge in turn from a colourful primeval swirl. Woven amongst the blades, the life blood of emerging sentience runs through an industrial maze of copper arteries, feeding seed-bud-lamps reaching for the light of renewed life.
Biomorph is created from acrylic, auto paint, epoxy resin, wood and copper. There is also re-purposed mechanism, lamp parts and circuitry. Extensive computer controlled LED lighting is installed throughout the work.