Transmaterial

Mind the Gap

Textile designer Ane Lykke has developed a three-dimensional wallpaper which explores the visual parallax created by two multicolored layers of hexagonal boxes. Currently on display at the Danish Design Centre, her so-called "Mind the Gap" wall decoration inspires interaction with the observer.

”The exhibition explores a very common phenomenon, which we have all experienced, for example when passing two parallel grid fences. As we move we see new wave forms or patterns arising. This is the principle that I have used in the exhibition. I want to find new ways of affecting the perception of a space, demonstrating that the spectator plays a crucial part,” says Ane Lykke, who adds that in physics this phenomenon is referred to as interference patterns.

Mind the Gap consists of a two-layered wall where the layers are separated by a 14 cm-space. The layers are made of hexagonal plastics boxes with stripes made of red lines in varying density and directions. The two layers turn into large pattern areas that change with the light and the spectator's movements. As Ane Lykke puts it, the wall is "passively waiting” and is only activated when the spectator moves within the space. Then variations of the patterns follow along as a film, forming a living, vibrating surface. In this way, the spectator alters the wall. [via http://www.dexigner.com/.]

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