Overview

What “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.

At its core is a living digital environment: a speculative forest ecosystem simulated in a game engine, functioning like a vast circuitry board where every natural phenomenon reveals its artificial construction. Metallic roots entwine with living flora and fauna, channeling energy toward an artificial sun. Together they form a cybernetic feedback loop—an ecology sustained equally by nature and machine, cycling endlessly through growth, collapse, and renewal.

Performance - Passage: Unfolding

The world of Passage comes to life through a live audiovisual 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.

Past music collaborators include Torus (NL), Bobby Beethoven (US), FITNESSS (US), LOIF (AU), and more.

Installation - Passage: Falling Light

Passage: Falling Light reimagines the world as a multi-channel durational installation.

Across its shifting biomes, the work reveals the interconnected rhythms of the day–night cycle: fans, circuitry, sunlight, lightning, and fire all sustaining an artificial ecology. At its center stands a large metallic sculpture, a hybrid tree that anchors and connects the environment’s physical and virtual layers.

Presentation: Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute MIX Center

Installation - Passage: Still Growth

Passage: Still Growth 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

In Passage: Soft Rains, the world transforms into an immersive multimedia environment of projected visuals, spatialized 4D sound, and sculptural interfaces.

A fabricated Kinect camera sculpture detects audience presence, its signals 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: Cold Bloom is an atmospheric room spray that translates the world of Passage into scent.

Blending equal parts natural and synthetic ingredients, it 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