2011
Interactive installation
Two scrim walls, two projectors, two proximity sensors
120 × 88 × 80 in. each
Distant Dreamer places two scrim walls face to face in the middle of the room. Each wall has its own projector and proximity sensor on the opposite side, so the setup mirrors itself from one end of the space to the other. The sensor measures how far a visitor is from the projector. As the visitor walks away from it toward the scrim, the light on that side grows brighter, and the contrast between the glowing scrim and the visitor’s shadow sharpens.
The changing light also changes the scrim itself. Under brighter light, a wall turns more opaque; under dimmer light, it becomes more translucent, letting the facing wall and whoever stands beyond it show through. Because each side responds to its own visitor, what one person can see of the other depends on where both of them stand and where their shadows fall. Nearness and distance are no longer only felt between people but written in light and shadow on the layers between them.
distant dreamer 
