CantenAIRies

Air as both a subtle omnipresence and definitive energy, “CatenAIRies” pays homage to it by utilizing wind to create a fluid and ethereal spatial experience. Derivative of the hanging chain model that acts upon the downward force of gravity, here air exists as a counterforce pressing upwards. The installation playfully alters the space by constantly responding to its surroundings and the user’s interaction. Smalls fans are used to inflate lightweight fabric domes that hang down from shifting water-drop weights – the entire installation responding to the subtlest of changes in the environment. The domes – simultaneously massive and ethereal; both volumetric and barely surficial – are interdependent upon the neighbors, their collective behavior defining the ever-changing form of the space.