Raindrops
Commonly known as 'water gel' or ‘water crystal', polyacrylamide is a polymer which can absorb water 150 times the weight of its own and return to its original state when dried. 'Raindrops' is an installation that maximizes its responsiveness to humidity in the air and translates it into a wet cloud of sensual experience.
Highly tensile fabric containing the gel on top expands downward as the gel absorbs water and gets heavy, ultimately localizing the watered area on ground. The growth rate of grass will inevitably depend on how close or how often each drop pulls down to the ground and how people move around it.
The systemic relationship between the 'drops', ground, and the people moving through, suggests a damp yet dynamic mechanism of life evolving around water. The experience is primeval, provoking the state of sublime innocence at the time of our own creation.
(Competitor's text)
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