Seasons is a work born from the call for projects launched by Art Explora and It’s Now, designed for the hospital environment. It offers a moment of contemplation and escape, a poetic breath of fresh air in a sometimes tense daily life.
This digital installation consists of four generative paintings, each evoking a season. These abstract creations are never static: they evolve in real time, influenced by meteorological data such as temperature, wind, sunshine, and the rhythm of day and night. Thus, nature interacts with digital technology, transforming the work over time, in a perpetual and unpredictable movement.
Each season has been finely interpreted graphically, translating the specific characteristics of its atmosphere into visual language. It is a sensitive reading of the world, a poetic abstraction of the living.
Seasons invites intuitive contemplation, on the edge of the imagination. The moving forms awaken in the viewer an experience of pareidolia—the fascinating phenomenon by which our brain projects familiar figures into blurred or random forms. A subtle reminder of our instinct, which seeks to recognize, understand, and anticipate.
In this constantly transforming universe, natural chaos becomes artwork, and the unpredictable becomes beauty.
But Seasons is also an interactive work, an invitation to resonate with the image. Thanks to Kinect technology, the viewer no longer remains a mere observer: they become actors in the work. Through their movements, they can interact with the digital composition, creating ripples and visual metamorphoses, as if touching a living canvas. This illusion of touching the painting creates an intimate and sensory connection, offering an experience that is both poetic and soothing particularly valuable in a hospital setting.
It is the TouchDesigner software that makes this magic possible. A true creative engine of the installation, it allows for the creation of real-time connections between the viewer’s body and the work, as well as between the natural world and the digital canvas. By integrating live weather data—temperature, wind, light, time of day TouchDesigner transforms this information into a fluid and organic visual material, making Seasons a work in perpetual evolution, straddling the line between reality and imagination.
