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Machine and Wave
A fabricated body holds a field of possible motion until the viewer's attention makes that possibility collapse.
Machine and Wave begins with a mechanical body surrounded by projected movement. The machine is visible, but it is not yet fixed as hardware. A field of unrealized actions hovers around it.
The visitor's presence changes the room. Distance, duration, and body orientation accumulate as measured attention. As that attention rises, the projected field contracts, the arms lose range, the sound thins, and motion breaks into stroboscopic samples.
At a threshold, the room stops together. Projection drops out, the arms lock, and the mechanical core becomes clearer as machinery. The clarity arrives as loss.
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