Airplayer XIX, 2025
Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking | Georgia Tech
The installation is concerned with biomorphic growth and change, dealing with shifts of perception and reality. Blower boxes move palm-like forms to create the impression of breathing. A microcontroller with a mechanical support system operates the blowers’ rhythmic breath-like movement. In contrast, the stationary pod-like forms, using interior lighting, reference skin. Multiple video projections add dimension, shifting colors and casting shadows upon walls, forms, and even the viewer. Ocean sound is layered in, mixing with the audible “breathing” of the blowers.
Material: Sprayed abaca forms, embedded plastic hosing, blower boxes, microcontroller, video projections, digitized sound, LED and incandescent lighting, (airbrushed acrylic shadows)
Size: 14’ x 12’ x 8’
...Armstrong’s works are abstract, but evoke a different understanding of the spatial relationship for the viewer. She presents large organic structures that breathe with the aid of mechanical light and air-powered movement. Viewers are invited to contemplate and embrace the state of transformation as a natural and inescapable state of being.
-Curator’s Statement, Jerushia Graham, Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking
