Objective — To reimagine Singaporean Author and filmmaker, Wesley Leon Aroozoo's novel,
'I Want to Go Home', into an immersive multi-sensory art installation. The story surrounds the conversations between the author and Mr. Takamatsu, who lost this wife to the 2011 Sendai Tsunami. He spent years diving every week in hopes of locating her body since receiving a message from her during the sounding of the alarm that read:
“I want to go home.”
'I Want to Go Home', into an immersive multi-sensory art installation. The story surrounds the conversations between the author and Mr. Takamatsu, who lost this wife to the 2011 Sendai Tsunami. He spent years diving every week in hopes of locating her body since receiving a message from her during the sounding of the alarm that read:
“I want to go home.”
Thus, the installation presents the notion of “searching” and “diving” within oneself, using hand gestures of the participants to reveal the pulsing orb at the heart of it.
My Role — Working with the Creative Director to conceptualise, iterate, develop and install To Have and To Hold, as well as monitor and troubleshoot it over the course of 2 weeks.
Iterations and testing WIP for To Have and To Hold, which was rapidly conceptualised and prototyped within a week.
To Have and To Hold used Leap Motion system to detect user's finger gestures which affected the motion of the fluid surface, slowly revealing the heart within - holding your palm closed led to the entire fluid shifting aside to reveal the beating orb.
