Upcoming Exhibition

Did it hurt when you fell from heaven? 

Scraped knees trembling as you stood up

Face to the sky, sunlight heating your eyelids

Turning your vision into fleshy hues of light pink

And bruised blues mimicking dark purple…

anamnesis is an interactive film. Click on the words, and journey through a poetry-filled digital landscape where pain reframes itself as the tide - an inevitably present fluid washing in and out.

In Winter’s code-created landscape, pain is reframed as a romance between electrical signals and external input. The poetry and prose we use to describe pain are rerouted - biophilic metaphors emerge to create new neural pathways where pain becomes tohu spiralling in the sky, a warning sign that something needs to be attended to. 

This is a sensory journey of discovery and looping. It is through the poetry that we navigate the internal world of the film, taking our time to feel each pore and swim down arteries. Each line pulls us further in, and on occasion, it connects back to a pathway we have already traversed -  the sinews similar, but slightly different. Created using Twine, an open source software for making text-based games, anamnesis is the output of interconnected coded links, woven together into a taura mamae, intricate and beautiful as meditating on the veins in your wrist. 

Each click is a step into a forest of lush reds, pinks, purples and blues. Each click is a step into the unknown - what are you about to encounter? Flashing colours - swirling like salt water and fresh water mixing at the mouth of river, a slow feast of sensory inputs - each one caressing and inducing shivers across your skin, sound filtered and flickering from the speakers - a deep booming resonance or a siren's achingly loving scream?

Or maybe, a line of text so intrinsically understandable that your body reacts before your mind..?

Journey ahead Angel,

Stretch your fearful wings

And step out - one click at a time

Into the unknown