Lorna Feggans (she/her)
My project originally started with the idea of exploring nature and its systems such as its ecology, morphology and physiology. I wanted my work to sit in the undefined boundaries where different areas of focus meet, where art and science live together. Looking at systematic approaches that can be seen in both computational and natural environments. Focusing on creating work that took me away from solely digital outputs, I used them as tools to explore the natural world. Allowing the living environment to inform and shape the way I worked becoming what drove my data generated outputs.
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Crescente Processus
Centring my work around the natural world led me to focus my studies into mushroom growth and behaviour. I chose to grow my own mushrooms, gaining first hand research whilst exploring from an artistic point of view. This method allowed me to investigate every part of a mushrooms life and gather data as they developed, and I learnt.
Petri Data Visualisation
I created a series of petri dishes that finalised a previous output, into a data visualisation of population over time of fungi species in Scotland. Allowing me to bring scientific representation into my output.
Generativa Opera
I transformed my attempts at growing mushrooms into data that formed a set of laser cut microscope slides from, as a reinvention of traditional exploration.
As well as using an Axi-Draw to create a print series of the same data. When you use an Axi-Draw, it has an element of mechanical error. Something that can be compared to elemental factors within nature. It is given a set of instructions and a path to follow. Although depending on material choice both paper and pen, height and pressure there will be an element of randomness to the outcome that is out with my control similarly to growing plant life.
Cyanotype Excudendi
The elemental factors previously mentioned can also be said for my cyanotype print series. It relies upon chemical application and UV light development that creates outcomes that no two are alike. This allows my work to link closer to nature taking digital processes and pairing them with unpredictable outcomes, bringing my work closer to its source material.
Ex Notitia Ad Physica
A series of developments showing how I created physical artefacts from my mushroom growing data. Using After Effects to track points within a timelapse that outputs a series of x and y coordinates which can then be translated via Processing into final visuals.
Building Process
When creating a display for my work I wanted to focus on the link to traditional horticultural studies. Modifying its appearance to reflect my modern take on this method.
