PROJECT 1:// THE CRYSTAL ORCHARD
VIDEO:// how to grow a plant
A built 1:1 prototype installed on an abandoned viaduct in Shoreditch. Harnessing the free energy of waves, an enchanted garden retreat grows commensalism. The project explores intelligent growth and redundant technologies; by using surplus radio waves to stimulating trees with 0.5A, they are found to grow up to 10% faster.
The copper coiling acts both as an aerial and a channel for the energy to flow through. A simple circuit was added to output the collected energy as sound. The position of the branches dictates the tuning: trees like Five Live.
"An orchard of crystal radios. A duality of existence. Plant and metal. Synthesis of EM wave energy akin to the photosynthesis of the trees. A living organism exoskeleton. The electric tree. A morphed being in commensalism. An existence born to create, grow and nurture.
Coiled and networked copper connections. Nodes and branches. Aerial attachments and co-existence alongside biological growth. Augmented trees. Bonsai restriction/growth dictating a shift in frequency reception through ‘Positive Music’ interactions (adjustments through bending and contortion to branch orientation dictate radio reception).
Harnessing the free energy of the surrounding atmosphere, generating a current and empowering products. An audio-visual display choreographed by the wave conditions.
The expansion of miracle gro into hardware form: encouraging growth with small currents. The epiphyte copper coils excite the negative space between the trees. The networks grow and interlink. A future system of canopied coils and weaves glistening beneath sodium lamps and interference atmospheres. Through expired technology.
Listen to the sounds of the atmosphere. Radiant energy. Free Power! Something from nothing. An expression of what’s out there. It’s gonna take the power back."
