Projects > Lucid Nature

This project uses light to visualize the agency and communication of plants.
Plants have an ability, only recently studied and not fully understood, to relay messages through their appendages using their vascular system in response to certain stimuli or threats much like our own nervous system. They are also able to communicate information to other plants, even other species, through root and mycorrhizal networks underground. Illuminated English Ivy vines model these systems through pulsating light patterns as they occupy the greenhouse.
English Ivy is an ornamental plant that is recognized as invasive in the US. The greenhouse sets the stage for this deceptively demure plant gone wild.