"The heterotopia is capable of juxtaposing in a single real place several spaces, several sites that are in themselves incompatible." (Foucault, 1984:6).

This site-specific projection installation was exhibited in Safe-House Gallery, a derelict Victorian home where the unique characteristics of architecture, decay and darkness (in relation to light and colour) were incorporated into the work. The installation explored the concept of 'Heterotopia', which refers to a contradictory space that juxtaposes usually incompatible places within the same space. Dorothea Tanning’s painting 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' (1943) was a key influence on the work, with its surreal sunflower emerging in a domestic setting that shares similar features of decay. I was intrigued by the ethereal atmosphere of the artwork and its containment of a natural form in a domestic space, where both human and the non-human appear to be undergoing a shared transformation.

I aimed to create a similar narrative, where an organic landscape emerged from the decay of the gallery space, turning the walls into a living ecosystem. This transformation symbolizes nature reclaiming lost territory, conveying a sense of both instability and continual change, reflective of ecological fragility. At the same time, the digital form of the environment creates an artificial simulation of a non-human world. This acts as reflection of human disconnection from the natural, something that becomes reflected in the projections' ephemerality.

I was also influenced by Roger Caillois’ concept of the “natural fantastic” (Caillois, 1971:143), which describes visual resonances across different forms in nature. Caillois suggests a mysterious force connecting all these forms, even when nature appears to "escape its own norms" (Caillois, 1971:142). Inspired by this concept, I used rhythmic looped patterns, digital layering, and translucency to visually represent the unexpected connections and patterns that exist across natural landscapes/forms as well as their relationship to the human figure incorporated in the artwork. At points throughout the projection sequences, the human form meshes with natural forms in various ways.