I am a creative practitioner and futuristic enthusiast looking into the what textiles can become and building this in my practice with my own interpretive style. Focusing on transforming spaces and interiors with modern technical influences to create my outcomes.
‘Exposure.’ focuses to reset the circadian rhythm that has been challenged with the increase of light pollution emerging in urban city culture and lifestyle. It’s an issue that we are not so aware of with the result of causing short and long-term health and environmental issues. The physical and mental aspects include an increase in depression, anxiety, sleep disorders and seasonal affective disorders as well as hormone imbalance, metabolism decrease, increase to cardiovascular disease and other long life health risks. On average 90% of the population spend most of their days indoors limiting their exposure to natural light throughout working days and living in a densely populated urban environment. However, with economic demand and the cost of living the drive to work in urban environments supporting the economy has been a high cause for this with the hidden health risks due to light pollution exposure.
Above displays the development of the VR sculpture experience. The concept behind this piece is that people will enter an immersive virtual pod space where they will be presented with a reflective rotating sculpture. This sculpture has four different lights reflected onto it representing morning, noon, afternoon and dusk, elevated at different heights with different intensities of light this allows the viewer to have the correct intake of natural light that they desire.
The ideas have developed from personal experiences of sleep disorders and seasonal affective disorder and the implications and irregularity of day-to-day predictions. The way in which lifestyles have worked to collaborate and make the economy and society to how it is has developed restrictions on calming environments with the influence of natural lighting by being restricted in a daily routine. With the emerging use of technology, it can cause hidden problems to our biological stance and our cardician rhythm.
The work is developed to see how textiles can reset the circadian rhythm with how colour and materials can co-operate with natural lighting to optimise bringing the natural outdoors more to people’s attention and needs. The work leading up to this will be important to the future health and wellbeing of future generations of city workers providing more accessible solutions in interiors that its compatible with the current lifestyle. The way my work applies to the environment focuses on creating a sustainable approach with the current urban environment that we live in. Instead of pulling down buildings, how can design alter what we already must allow natural light to be more accessible to people working in restrictive office space and looking at how we can move forward from existing situations and materials.
Limiting resources by creating solutions that don’t require a high demand of physical materials. The VR experience can be accessed in any office pod space as the sculpture is programmed easily transitable through programming on a global scale to help the wellbeing of many city workers. By using VR to enhance the future of textile interior spaces creates innovative resource accessibility and sustainable alternatives to sculpture creations. These instillation sculptures have been directed and formed to benefit different types of spaces with a range of different light accessibility to maximise the help that they bring into an interior space.
CMF intern at PriestmanGoode (2022-23)
