PULSE STATE
A project for Digital Surface

A PULSE STATE describes a spectator inside a pulsating sheet of graphic print.

The space is actually a double stiched plastic tent. The membranes are stiched together for example into departments of 20 by 30 centimeters, into cells, into which air is separately in each cell filled and emptied. The tent is pulsating.

On both sides of the membrane figures are printed, in the most simple form only ring forms. The aim is to produce a vibrant phenomenal effect by the pulsating cells and as the figures are repeatedly changing, ultimately bringing the spectator towards a state of disequilibrity. The final effects demand, naturally, a lot of experimenting.

The pictorial idea, or actually the whole work, starts from a certain feeling or state of mind, into which I am falling into now and then since childhood. There is a image or form connected to it, a sign of infinity or, as it were, a cell once divided, two balls partly in touch with each other. I have previously built several so called air works, so the constructing of air valve pumps is feasible from the technical point of view.

This project combines a doubling of the site of presentation, one where the constructed large object can be viewed as modifying the space it is placed in, the other space, an inside of a tentlike transparent womb, dominates the spectator by the multiplying and changing image-wall. The moving and pulsating images imprinted on the inbetween airfilled (and emptied) surfaces can be watched as a living being.                                                        

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