Series Overview

What is “natural” in an age of control and mediation?

As human activity reshapes the planet beyond distinction, there is no longer a boundary between the natural and the artificial. Passage imagines a speculative forest functioning like a living circuit board—an ecosystem where every natural phenomenon operates as a synthetic process. Spanning live cinema, installation, sculpture, and fragrance, it invites audiences into an ecosystem where organic life and machine systems grow inseparably.

Installation - Passage.FallingLight

Passage.FallingLight is a mixed media installation.
Surrounding screens depict a speculative forest ecosystem simulated live in a game engine. The forest operates like a circuit board: metallic roots entwine with living flora and fauna, channeling energy to an artificial sun. Across its shifting biomes, interlinked components (fans, circuitry, sunlight, lightning, and fire) sustain a cybernetic feedback loop, cycling through growth, collapse, and renewal. At the center, a large metallic hybrid tree anchors the work’s physical and virtual layers.

Presentation: Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute MIX Center

Performance - Passage.Unfolding

Passage.Unfolding is an audiovisual live cinema performance.

Using a sculptural camera controller, the artist navigates a virtual forest in real time: an unbroken, hour-long take that unfolds as both film and performance before the audience. A collaborating musician scores the journey live, responding to shifts in light, camera work, and terrain, creating a dialogue between image and sound.

Presentation: Onassis Borderline Festival (Athens), Ultima Festival (Oslo), A3 Festival (Melbourne), Diskokina (US)
Past music collaborators include Torus (NL), Bobby Beethoven (US), FITNESSS (US), LOIF (AU), and more.

Installation - Passage.StillGrowth

Passage.StillGrowth is a site-specific sculptural installation.

The work centers on a living ficus tree located in the lobby of New York City’s financial district: a species that, in the wild, extends aerial roots freely, yet here is pruned into ornamental restraint. Attached to its trunk is a synthetic prosthetic: a sculptural limb that mimics the growth it’s been denied, cast from the same industrial materials that define the surrounding architecture.

Presentation: New Museum’s 2025 DEMO Festival

Installation - Passage.Soft Rains

Passage.SoftRains is an interactive installation.

The installation allows the audience to interact and obverse the biome in Passage through a sculptural camera, subtly disrupting an automated roaming camera that shapes the behaviors of AI-governed creatures within the digital scene.

Presentation: Onassis ONX in New York and the Museo de Artes Visuales in Bogotá, Colombia.

Fragrance - Passage.ColdBloom

Passage.ColdBloom is an atmospheric room spray that translates the world of Passage into scent.

Blending equal parts natural and synthetic ingredients, the custom scent opens with the impression of a lush forest, but over time colder, synthetic metal tones emerge. Its sculptural cap, cast in resin and metal, recalls a pruned tree mid-growth.

Presentation: Komune in New York