RAINDROP Andre's Secret Project (Work In Progress) 2024
RAINDROP Andre's Secret Project (Work In Progress) 2024
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In the 1990s my husband, painter Farrell Brickhouse, and I brought the foster child we were adopting, 11-year-old Andre Bernard, to our cabin deep in the woods of Upstate New York. We hiked, swam in the pond and lay out staring at planets and stars after dinner. Later we used our hands to create shadow puppets on the cabin walls and at one point Farrell began reading Robinson Crusoe out loud. Andre began writing furiously in his notebook as Farrell struggled through the old English language of the text. Farrell wanted Andre to listen and stopped to ask what was so important that he was writing. Andre began to read his poem aloud: “I was born from a raindrop of heavenly water. And out of the mist came a tiny egg and out of that egg came a whole river of enchanted fish....” We were flummoxed! Farrell looked at Andre and said:” you keep writing and I’ll keep reading.”
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"RAINDROP Andre's Secret Project", is an immersive video projection mapping installation designed to transport visitors to a serene opening in a forest that hides small houses in the woods. Here the beauty of nature converges with the magic of Andre's poem that shares a profound exploration of life’s journey, transformation, and the interconnectedness of all things.
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Site Specific Video Projection Mapping with AI animation, AI audio to recreate Andre's voice from clips from my documentary "The Andre Show"
- 3 projectors built with Madmapper , Kaiber AI, Eleven Labs AI, Adobe Photoshop, and Premiere Pro.
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Self Storage 2024
TSL Gallery, "Self-Storage" Solo Exhibition 2024
"Life does not happen in order to make sense, and the ocean shore’s obsessive mantra allows us to take that in. Long study, experimentation, and tinkering were required to bring these unseeable memories to light. This work qualifies, I think, as sublime—in that here, the beautiful is intertwined with the terrifying. It gives us a shudder, but also the frissons that come with waves of the true and the beautiful" Sandra Moore, ArtSpiel. February 2024
Self-Storage, a site specific installation, is constructed of moving boxes - like those I’ve dragged around through each life I’ve lived. Video Projection Mapping splashes and wraps around their surfaces - as well as the ceiling and walls - displaying the memories and experiences tucked away inside. This chapter of the installation includes my husband’s boxes, painter Farrell Brickhouse, filled with paintings and journals of our life together. Little houses, made of cardboard and tin, represent our life together in Montauk, Tribeca, Staten Island and Upstate New York. Observers peek inside these houses to see home movies and playful video diaries I’ve shot over the years. I also used AI programs to create animations of the box pile that are displayed on long woven scrims and throughout the piece. It creates a deeply personal and emotional experience that allows users to reflect on their own memories as they explore the dreamlike and immersive environment. This multi-modular scultural sections come together in a large 30'x40' space. However these modules also work independently as standalone installations for smaller spaces.
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Site Specific Video Projection Mapping with AI animation
- 5 projectors & 6 video channels, built with Madmapper , Kaiber AI, Lexica AI, Unreal and Adobe, Photoshop, and After Effects.
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Shaky's Meadow (2022) Incorporates images and sculptures by Artist David Pollack
Lockwood Gallery, NY (2022) "Dream Within A Dream"
"This dedicated environment has an all encompassing, almost Virtual Reality space. With projected digitized stars in a recreated night forest, Peterson plumbs the depths of mystery with her illuminated space. This immersive experience envelopes the visitor and invites participation as the outline of a house becomes a vehicle for transformation from one dimension to the next." Jen Dragon, DART International Magazine. May 2022
David Pollack's watercolors are incorporated into an immersive 3D augmented projection that spill across the gallery walls and Pollack's bird house sculptures.
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Site Specific Video Projection Mapping with AI animation​
- 2 channel projection, built with Madmapper , Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro